Comments are being invited for a new draft standard focusing on accessibility within website design. The DPC BS 8878 Web Accessibility Code of Practice from the British Standards Institute (BSI) will accept comments until June 30th and focuses on how to create organisational policies and production processes to ensure websites do not exclude elderly and [...]

The new Equality act 2010 is designed to replace the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and, like it, says that websites must be accessible to disabled users (albeit the language is harder to follow). Few have sued website owners under the old law and none of these cases resulted in a judgment. But in what looks [...]

OUT-LAW News, 19/03/2010 OPINION: The UK’s law on web accessibility is being re-written in an apparent attempt to make it impenetrable. But even though algebra has replaced plain English, the duty to make information accessible to disabled people survives, thanks to a blind peer. The Equality Bill is nearing the end of its Parliamentary journey. [...]