Current Adoption of WAI Guidelines
- US
- 508, 504, ADA, 255 -- different requirements or no specific
requirements
- States -- for Web, some reference 508, some WCAG, some
"hybrid" guidelines
- AU
- WCAG requirements apply to government and commercial sites
- CA
- WCAG requirements apply to government sites
- EU
- Commission directive, Parliament resolution -- requires WAI
guidelines
- EU Member States & Accession States policies -- some
WCAG, some hybrid
- JP
- JIS developing hybrid guidelines for E&IT and Web
- Internationally
- WSIS process, UN AP Regional policy standards
- Overall
- market still not as unified as it might be
