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Provincial Government Should be Setting the Example for New Website Launches

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Well it didn’t take long for me to find another so called “accessible website” through an article at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2009/27/c3016.html
titled “ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE | OPP launches redesigned website enhancing public access to OPP information“.

The Author states;

To be inclusive of people with disabilities, the website was designed to meet current accessibility standards.

What standards would that be?

Surely not Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0(WCAG), or even WCAG 1.0!

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