Accessibility and Re: [LINK] Smart Card Submissions Online

[Tom Worthington]

At 08:10 PM 8/31/2006, Irene Graham wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:59:51 +1000, Tom Worthington wrote:
> > ... The submissions which they have received, in PDF and/or RTF, are at
> > <http://www.humanservices.gov.au/access/discussion_papers/>.
>
>Actually, the submissions they received in PDF are not on that page yet  ...

The smart card privacy task force seems to be having problems working 
out how to handle submissions. They put the up just the URL of my web 
page, rather than the ten page word processing version I sent them 
<http://www.humanservices.gov.au/modules/resources/access_card/discussion/1I30_tom_worthington.pdf>.

>... it's not credible that they can't publish submissions received 
>only in PDF (containing text) for fear of breaching the DDA. ...

Yes. I have suggested the task force consult the Health Department's 
staff, as they seem to be able to do an okay job of web publishing. 
Apart from web accessibility guidelines, there are penalties in the 
Archives Act for not correctly handling mail messages and electronic 
documents 
<http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/aa198398/s24.html>.



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