INTERNET : EU STANDARDS ON WEB ACCESSIBILITY SLOW IN COMING.

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EU standards to facilitate access to public websites for blind or partially sighted people will be published in the coming weeks. The EU's standardisation committees CEN, CENELEC and ETSI managed to complete the draft European accessibility standarrd requirements. These will ensure that web designers make their sites compatible with software used by blind people to make websites "talk," for instance. These standards will also help administrations launching websites to better define the accessibility requirements in their invitations to tendera(1).aANEC, the association representing consumers in the standardisation process, welcomed this step, while stressing that there was still a lot of work to be done.

"The next step towards achieving e-accessibility is the adoption by Council and Parliament of the directive on the accessibility of the websites of public sector bodies," said ANEC Secretary-General Stephen Russell. The...

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