Hi Jennison

I recently conducted an interview with Bruce Maguire from the Australian Human
Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission about the Australian Disability
Discrimination Act and how that applies to the accessibility of IT in higher
education. The interview was one of a series being organised by EASI and is
available as both an audio clip and text transcription from the EASI site:
http://easi.cc/media/ausweb1.htm.

Please note that the Australian DDA is not new legislation - it was first
passed in 1992. What is new is the Australian Human Rights and Equal
Opportunity Commission's recent statement reaffirming that the DDA does apply
to Web accessibility and that the W3C guidelines are used as the benchmark for
compliance. This recent statement was a proactive move on the part of HREOC in
the wake of the recent events with respect to the ADA.

Denise


-----Original Message-----
From: Jennison Asuncion
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 25/11/2002 12:01 PM
Subject: question re UK and Australia laws on access to higher education

Hello,

I am hoping that someone in the UK can advise me as to whether any
legislation that speaks to access to higher education for students with
disabilities has any mention of the need to make campus
computing/eLearning accessible? I am almost positive that the UK did
recently pass some legislation around access to higher ed, but I could
be
wrong. If in fact there is such wording, and this legislation does
exist,
if I could get a web reference to it, that would be appreciated.

Also, I understand that Australia too passed something around higher
education and access by students with disabilities. If someone in
Australia could confirm this (answering the above question),that would
be
great.

thanks,
Jennison