WebAIM: Blog - UN Ratifies Disability Treaty
UN's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) will go into effect 5/3/08 in the countries that have ratified it (the US isn't one).
The most prominent is <a href="http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=269">Article 9 - “Accessibility”</a>, which places accessibility of information, communication, and technologies (ICT) at the same level as Articles on “The right to life”, “Equal recognition before the law”, “Access to justice”, and “Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”. You can see that accessible ICT is being taken very seriously.