Websites
Legislation/regulations
All public administration websites must fulfil criteria of eAccessibility focused on people with disabilities by 1st January 2008 under the Act on Public Administration Information Systems No. 365/2000 Coll., as amended by the Act No. 81/2006 Coll. This applies to both central level authorities and local government. The Act stipulates that public authorities shall provide online information in a form that allows people with disabilities to access it.
Government resolution No. 64, 7th February 2008 provides harmonisation with and implementation of EU requirements. Among other things, the Ministry of Interior was to prepare a standard on publishing information that complies with the WAI initiative. These recommendations were published to comprise altogether 33 rules putting together the three methodologies used for eAccessibility (WCAG 2.0, Section 508 and Blind Friendly Web). This is a very detailed handbook comprising 33 chapters and encompassing explanations and examples.
Other initiatives
The Blind Friendly Web project, organized by the Czech Blind United, a Czech disability organisation, was the first project in the country to deal with accessibility. Since 2000, it has offered testing, courses and consultancy geared towards webmasters who want to create accessible web pages, including material on principles of web accessibility for users with severe vision impairments. Czech Blind United (and some private companies) also offer audits focused on eAccessibility.
The local and regional information society conference, which is a major annual national event, includes a ‘Golden Crest’ competition for websites and one of the awards refers to eAccessibility.
The website http://pristupnost.nawebu.cz provides voluntary eAccessibility guidelines. The website provides information about the subject, gives basic orientation in related terminology, provides a web blog and discussion area, presents various eAccessibility instruments and gives links to other information resources.
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