US Federal Gov't making accessibility noises

[Thomas Dowling]

This story is currently available at Ziff-Davis.
<URL:http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2243282,00.html>.

Monday Eye Opener: 'Handicapped access' hits the Web

    ...Next month, it [the federal government] will unveil
    standards aimed at ensuring that Web sites operated by firms
    doing business with government agencies are fully accessible
    to the disabled.

It sounds very much like this will eventually extend requirements to the
sorts of organizations currently affected by the ADA.

There's a sidebar about Bobby--ZD is honest enough to admit that their ZD
Network News page got 122 accessibility problems.  I suspect a lot of us
have pages that wouldn't do too much better.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu