Jan 17, 2009 Posted by Herko

Ophef webrichtlijnen-brief staatssecretaris onnodig – webrichtlijnen wel verplicht!

Ver­schil­lende web­sites con­clud­eren ten onrechte dat staatssec­re­taris Bijleveld in haar antwo­ord op vra­gen uit het Alge­meen Over­leg e-overheid zegt dat de webrichtli­j­nen niet ver­plicht wor­den voor andere dan rijksoverheden. Eerder deze week pub­liceer­den ver­schil­lende web­sites (o.a. Web­w­ereld en Dig­i­taal Bestuur ) het bericht dat Bijleveld de... read more

Dec 12, 2008 Posted by Herko

W3C news

This week, the W3C announced two inter­est­ing bits of news, news I’d like to share with you. The World Wide Web Con­sor­tium announced yes­ter­day that it has for­mally adopted the next ver­sion of the Web Con­tent Acces­si­bil­ity Guide­lines (WCAG 2.0)  as an offi­cial rec­om­men­da­tio. This is a big step towards eWCAG 2 becom­ing a web stan­dard. The cre­ation of the WCAG 2.0... read more

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