Talk:PAS 78

I've replaced the original article with a complete rewrite. I thought the original piece, with a link to accessibility 101 was just a thinly veiled sales piece. And considering this page is on the clean-up list for June 2006 I thought I'd do an overhaul. Also today, the DRC is making PAS 78 freely available, under license from the BSI - that's newsworthy enough to create an interest in PAS 78, hopefully Wikipedia can help get the message out there about web accessibility.

The article needs a wikipedian to suggests wiki links. I'll probably end up tweaking and fine tuning this piece over the next couple of days, so comments gratefully accepted.

Two disclaimers: I've added a link to my blog entry as part of the external links - I'd like someone less biased than me to have a look and see if its good quality enough to be on the list of external links. The other links are to web accessibility experts and news organisations, as well as references to legislation sites.

Second disclaimer: I worked for Legal & General and was the Technical Lead Web Developer on their web accessibility initiative. The business case and results of making the site accessible was presented as a case study at the PAS 78 launch. -- Isofarro 29 June 21:29 British Summer Time

A thinly disguised sales piece?
It might have been - but when i first posted the artile as fresh content on Wiki it was breaking news for the wider population - why I added it to wiki.

I fully intended cleaning the page up but its quite disconcerting to know that when you take time out to update wiki with what was some useful information you find out someone comes along and knocks it.

Although the info you added was an improvement - exactly what is the difference between a link to your blog or my blog, at the end of the day?

PS - your article is better than mine!

Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.56.66.66 (talk • contribs) 2006-07-08 00:15:25 (UTC)


 * Good point. I've now removed both links. Isofarro 10:22, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

External link
I have written a guide on the impact of the DDA and PAS 78 on web sites - Sure it's on our own web site, but I still think it's a useful page and perhaps worthy of a link?

Guide to the impact of the DDA and PAS 78

I would also appreciate any feedback people have on the information it contains.

Please can someone advise if this OK to include as an external link?

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