The European Parliament adopted its second reading position on Wednesday 26 October on the regulation on the accessibility of websites (see EUROPE 11546). In the debate the previous day, MEPs underlined the added value of this text and bemoaned the slowness of the legislative process.
The new rules, proposed at the end of 2012, establish a set of criteria and of technical provisions to ensure that everyone, including people with limited mobility and the handicapped, can have access to the...