Legislation
UK
- Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA).
- Disability Rights Commission: Codes of Practice, especially Code of Practice for providers of Post 16 education and related services - DDA 1995: Part 4 (Word document).
- Office of the e-Envoy: Guidelines for UK government websites
- UK Resources for Web Accessibility and the Law, by Martin Sloan.
- Web Accessibility and the DDA by Martin Sloan, University of Glasgow.
- Institutional Web sites and Legislation by Martin Sloan.
- Access to e-learning in higher education by disabled students: current public policy issues by Ozcan Konur, University of Sheffield, 2002.
- Special Educational Needs and Disability Act: Part 2 Discrimination in Education by Ozcan Konur, 2001.
- W3C WAI Policies Relating to Web Accessibility: United Kingdom.
USA
- Section 508 - Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications.
- WebAIM: Section 508 Web Accessibility Checklist.
- U.S. Department of Justice, Americans with Disabilities Act
- Jo Clark's AccessiBlog: Government requirements (collection of articles and resources).
- Jo Clark's AccessiBlog: Lawsuits.
EU
Ireland
Deutschland
Schweiz
- E-Government: Internetzugang für Sehbehinderte - Kriterien und Empfehlungen für die Zugänglichkeit von Web-Seiten für Menschen mit Behinderung.
More resources
- Global Legal and Policy Resources
- Disability Law and Reality - links to Disability Anti-discrimination laws, Disability Statistics and documents relating to web accessibility from around the world.
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