Maguire v Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2000)

Maguire v SOCOG 2000 was a legal case in Australia about making a website accessible to a visually impaired person. == Complaint == On 7 June 1999, Maguire made a complaint to the human rights and equal opportunity commission (HREOC), alleging that the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) had discriminated against him as a person disabled, in contravention of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 in three aspects: the failure to provide braille copies of the information required to order Olympic Games tickets; the failure to provide braille copies of the Olympic Games souvenir programme; and the failure to provide a website which was accessible to Maguire.

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Maguire v Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2000)

Maguire v SOCOG 2000 was a legal case in Australia about making a website accessible to a visually impaired person. == Complaint == On 7 June 1999, Maguire made a complaint to the human rights and equal opportunity commission (HREOC), alleging that the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) had discriminated against him as a person disabled, in contravention of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 in three aspects: the failure to provide braille copies of the information required to order Olympic Games tickets; the failure to provide braille copies of the Olympic Games souvenir programme; and the failure to provide a website which was accessible to Maguire.

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