South Korean Government Launches Website Accessibility Review

COAT is delighted to learn that the South Korean Ministry of Public Administration & Security will begin a web accessibility standards survey of 1,000 frequently used websites by the end of March 2010. Although there is no compliance law currently, the Ministry's survey should pressure organisations to improve their web accessibility. Disability groups and standards experts are involved in the action.

"If these websites do not comply with web standards, blind users cannot access the websites even if they use text-to-speech software," said Yoo Yeong-il, a researcher at Korea's National Information Society Agency. The Korean Ministry notes that web standards like accessibility are about both compliance and changing social attitudes, in alignment with Korea's disability non-discrimination law and the need to change the social mindset.

Story reported by Media Access Australia.

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