Dec 3, 2008 Posted by Herko

Accessibility mandatory for all Dutch government websites

On Decem­ber 1 2008, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Dutch state, provin­cial, water­board and local gov­ern­ment signed a treaty called the National Exe­cu­tion Pro­gramme elec­tronic pub­lic ser­vice. By doing so, they for­mally com­mit­ted the entire Dutch gov­ern­ment to imple­ment­ing the Dutch Webguide­lines (among other goals). There are inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized... read more

Jan 7, 2008 Posted by Herko

Note to gov: don’t make your texts too simple

The Dutch gov­ern­ment aims to keep their texts sim­ple and clear. This as part of its pol­icy to make its con­tents acces­si­ble with­out dis­crim­i­na­tion. In order to achieve this goal, a lot of texts and forms are being reviewed on their com­plex­ity and read­abil­ity, guide­lines are cre­ated on how to write read­able sim­ple texts and a lot of research on text read­abil­ity is... read more