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Jared Smith blogged that Section 508 is being updated. He's a member of the Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee (TEITAC). This group has been working on the Section 508 updates. They're open to feedback on the published drafts and aim to present their final recommended changes to the U.S. Access Board this January. The TEITAC's next face-to-face meeting about the updates started yesterday and runs through Friday.
The UK Cabinet Office is considering a revision to their web accessibility standards that would require all government sites to comply with Level Double-A of the W3C WCAG by December 2008. If not, the sites could lose their .gov.uk domain. The UK Cabinet Office is accepting responses on this proposed change until November 13th. Honestly, I don't see how this standard would be feasible given the low level of compliance for government sites with the Level A WCAG accessibility guidelines; (only about 3% of all government sites in the European Union comply).
