Disability Discrimination Act
¨DDA is administered by the Human rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC).
¨Accepts that some differential treatment is unavoidable.
¨Commonwealth Departments and Agencies must develop action plans.
¨Emerging DDA standards on “Electronic Communication”.
Realistically, it is not possible for some people with multiple disabilities to have equivalent opportunities, eg blind deaf.
There is a requirement for all Commonwealth Departments and Agencies to develop and lodge  action plans with HREOC
The Commonwealth Government has recently issued guidelines for Commonwealth Information Published in Electronic Format with emerging standards on electronic comerse. The commonw gov intends to do most of its paper based business electronically within the next few years