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		<title>EU accessibility legislation: Keeping the public sector accessible</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carine Marzin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Carine Marzin. The EU directive on making the websites and mobile apps of public sector bodies more accessible was adopted at the end of 2016 and is the very first piece of EU legislation on digital accessibility. It will benefit over 500 million European citizens, including an estimated 80 million Europeans living with a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[An annual review of council websites across the UK has revealed that one third of local government sites failed first-stage testing to find out how accessible their websites are for users with disabilities. Carried out by Socitm (the Society of IT Management), the Better Connected survey is a nationwide examination to evaluate local authority websites on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local authorities planning to redesign their websites or make any major changes to them must carry out equality analysis from day one of the project, delegates heard at this month’s ‘Building Perfect Council Websites’ conference in Birmingham. And suppliers or contractors designing a council’s website or taking on responsibility for uploading web content to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Jellinek]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only a quarter of UK local authority websites are accessible to people with disabilities, significantly fewer than last year, according to this year’s ‘Better Connected’ council website review by the public sector Society of IT Management (Socitm). Overall, 105 councils (26%) were rated by the Socitm report as at least ‘satisfactory’, defined as having few [&#8230;]]]></description>
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