New Dutch accessibility law

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Published February 14, 2007

The Dutch seem to have their internet accessibility laws well under control, and unlike the W3C, they seem to know what they’re doing:

As of 1 September last year, every website built for a government agency is required by law to use:

  • Use valid HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0 Strict.
  • Use CSS and semantic HTML and separation of structure and presentation.
  • Use the W3C DOM (instead of the old Microsoft document.all) when scripting.
  • Use meaningful values of class and id.
  • Use meaningful alt attributes on all images.

Department of Trade & Industry, do you hear that?

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2 Comments

  1. Steve February 14, 2007 at 6:56 pm

    HTML 4.01 though? Should be rendered obsolete IMHO.

  2. weiran February 17, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    Theres nothing wrong with HTML 4.01 Strict, it enforces seperated content and styling, and also natively compatible with every web browser in the world. Unlike XHTML 1.0 Strict which is not supported by IE if you serve the content as XML rather than HTML.

    Infact, nearly every site coded in XHTML has its contents served as HTML instead, so its interpreted has HTML by the browser. If you have any validation issues with XHTML served as XML, the page will not render.

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