Editing Web accessibility (section)

===Australia===
In 2000, an [[Australians|Australian]] blind man won a $20,000 court case against the [[Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games|Sydney Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (SOCOG)]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Maguire v SOCOG {{!}} Australian Human Rights Commission|url=https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/disability-rights/maguire-v-socog|access-date=2022-01-11|website=humanrights.gov.au|archive-date=11 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111225806/https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/disability-rights/maguire-v-socog|url-status=live}}</ref> This was the first successful case under [[Disability Discrimination Act 1992]] because SOCOG had failed to make their official website, [[Sydney Olympic Games]], adequately accessible to blind users. [[Australian Human Rights Commission|The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)]] also published World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/standards/www_3/www_3.html |title=World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes ver 4.0 (2010) &#124; Australian Human Rights Commission |publisher=Hreoc.gov.au |date=1 July 2010 |access-date=28 July 2013 |archive-date=31 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831085343/http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/standards/WWW_3/www_3.html |url-status=live }}</ref> All Governments in Australia also have policies and guidelines that require accessible public websites.