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Martin SLoan's Web Accessibility and the Law Links: a comrehensive and up-to-date list of links relating to legislative issues and web accessibility.
UK Disability Rights Commission: Information about the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), including the latest Code of Practice for the DDA.
Section 508: The Road to Accessibility: Find out about Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of the USA - legislation specifically dealing with accessibility of technology, including Web sites.
International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI): Among many other subjects, ICDRI provides further information on legislative issues and accessibility of Internet resources.
Maguire v Sydney Olympics Organising Committee - Official Ruling: A landmark ruling took place in Autumn 2000, when the Sydney Olympics Organising Committee (SOCOG) was found to be in breach of Australia's Disability Discriminatation Act, as the official site of the Sydney Olympics was not accessible to blind people using screen reading technology. Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission dismissed the arguments in defence presented by SOCOG and IBM, the providers of the web site, who argued that it would be excessively expensive to retro-fit the site to remove the accessibility barriers preventing blind people from accessing information on the site.