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Talks about how the head of library services should have a better grasp of accessibility issues by being directive, proactive and lead by example. Also need to pay attention to policy developments so that access considerations can be accommodated with new policies/changes or to be aware of external changes so can understand what the barriers are.

Australia enacted its Disability Discrimination Act in 1992, prior to the now ubiquitous World Wide Web. However, the "Maguire v. Sydney Olympic Games Organising Committee" High Court case in 2000 clearly demonstrated that the Australian Disability Discrimination Act applies in the online world.

The ALT Conference The ALT annual conference, altc, is the UK's main conference for learning technologists and one of the largest conferences of its kind. It is held over three days every September, providing a valuable and practical forum for practitioners, researchers, managers and policy-makers from education and industry to solve problems, explore, reflect, influence and learn. More information about altc2013, which was held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, University of Nottingham, is available here.

Refresh of the Equality Delivery System for the NHS The Equality Delivery System (EDS) was rolled out to the NHS in July 2011 and formally launched in November 2011. The EDS is currently being implemented by the vast majority of NHS organisations across England. The design and implementation of the EDS was independently evaluated in November 2012. Based on this evaluation and recent discussions with a selection of NHS organisations, it is proposed to refresh the EDS. Further engagement is planned to test what is being proposed.