Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

Is the Internet Public Space?

Now that we have seen some of the efforts that public institutions have made to establish commitment and develop policy, let’s examine how policy is monitored and enforced.

Olympics Case Has International Consequences

As we saw above, Australia has a strong commitment to accessible information technology. In a 1999 lawsuit, Bruce Lindsay Maguire sued the Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. On June 7, Maguire—who is blind—complained to the Commission that he was unlawfully discriminated against in three respects: the failure to provide Braille copies of the information required to place orders for Olympic Games tickets, the failure to provide Braille copies of the Olympic Games souvenir program, and ...