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This is a consortium of organisations across Europe who signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to harmonise accessibility evaluation, and toward a Europe-wide quality mark.
http://www.euroaccessibility.org/ [External website]
A formally funded project under the EU sixth framework programme, it aims to develop/propose a basis for a Europe-wide web accessibility quality mark, due to be completed by 31 March 2006.
http://www.support-eam.org/ [External website]
Established under the eEurope 2002 action plan, this is a network of ‘centres of excellence’ in design-for-all across Europe. Each Member State has a National Contact Centre, and may also have a local network as well. It functions mainly as a clearing house for news about eAccessibility in Europe.
http://www.eaccessibility.org/ [External website]
WAI is a domain within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) responsible for developing the de facto international guidelines on Web Accessibility (WCAG etc.)
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ [External website]
A Comparative Assessment of Web Accessibility and Technical Standards Conformance in Four EU States. Carmen Marincu and Barry McMullin. First Monday, volume 9, number 7 (July 2004). http://eaccess.rince.ie/white-papers/2004/warp-2004-00/ [External website]
Better connected 2005: a snapshot of all local authority websites (www.socitm.gov.uk/insight) [External website]
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