A public review of the Dutch accessibility guidelines was announced, to receive opinions of web workers not involved in the project. They also came up with a first version of an English translation of the guidelines (MS Word document, 1,54 MB).

The Dutch guidelines are a result of the ‘ICT for an inclusive society’ meeting in Riga last year. By 2010 all government web sites need to be accessible:

Promote inclusive eGovernment by promoting and ensuring accessibility of all public web sites by 2010, through compliance with the relevant W3C common web accessibility standards and guidelines. Calling upon the private sector to do likewise, to consider accessibility principles from the outset of the web development process, and to develop the appropriate authoring tools and software.