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Dear correspondent,
Your readers, particularly those responsible for building and managing web sites, should be interested in 'eEurope 2002: Accessibility of Public Web Sites and their Content' - a Communication adopted by the European Commission last week.

The aim is to make Web sites more accessible to people with disabilities and older people. By adopting the Communication, the Commission is supporting the European Institutions and Member States in adopting and implementing a set of Web Accessibility Guidelines. These were created by the World Wide Web Consortium / Web Accessibility Initiative, with the support of organisations around the world, including the European Commission research programmes.

The use of these guidelines in public websites is already a legal requirement in some countries around the world, so they are becoming critical knowledge for those responsible for websites everywhere.

More information can be found at: http://www.europa.eu.int/information_society/accessibility/
This site provides the press release and the Communication in English, French and German, as well as other supporting material, and uses its own content to demonstrate some accessibility problems.
We hope you find this information useful.
Yours sincerely,

Press Team
Information Society Directorate-General
European Commission
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/themes/