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Karen Mardahl provided the information in this article assembled by Global Talk. The information is from the 19 June 2006 issue of IST Results (news from the EU Information Society Technologies program) in an article titled “A common approach to accessibility for all.”

The article discusses efforts to harmonize the methodologies for achieving the goal of accessible websites. These efforts include:

The EU Web Accessibility Benchmarking Cluster (WAB), “a cluster of European projects to develop a harmonized European methodology for evaluation and benchmarking of websites.”

European Internet Accessibility Observatory (EIAO), which aims to establish benchmarking.

Support-EAM (Supporting the creation of a e-Accessibility Quality Mark) with the objective of “propos(ing) a strategy for creating a Web Accessibility Quality Mark for Web services by the end of 2005, as part of the Action Plan eEurope 2005: An information society for all.”

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