[blindlaw] 508 compliance clone?

John Ramsey joramsey at cox.net
Sun May 2 12:12:25 UTC 2010


Hi Dave,
What is the cite for the section 508 you are talking about?
Thanks,
John

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of David Andrews
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 9:09 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] 508 compliance clone?


Things are moving in that direction, but we don't get there all at 
once.  We have Section 508, which applies to Federal sites, at least 
in theory.  Several states, including here in Minnesota, have passed 
legislation that extend 508 and/or WCAG 2.0 to the state 
level.  While the ADA was passed prior to the web as we know it, some 
entities would fall under it, as far as the web goes, in terms of 
access to programs and services.  The Justice Department seems to be 
making noise like they will officially extend the ADA to the web.

In MN we just saw a law passed that requires accessibility in terms 
of all public records.  So, step by step things are getting covered.

Dave

At 06:47 PM 5/1/2010, you wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I've been thinking about 508 compliance and maybe something NFB
>could push at the state level. I love how pretty much any document 
>has to be 508-compliant on federal web sites (and I'm guessing state 
>as well. Anyone know?) This is nice when you're trying to view a 
>PDF. Unfortunately, there's a lot of web sites 9Barbri is one of 
>them) who scan their PDF's onto the web site which JAWS will tell 
>you the document is empty. So, we print the document out so we can 
>read it. Has anyone thought of some kind of legislation or working 
>with various web sites that post PDF's by scanning them in to make 
>them 508 compliant, but on the private level? (What I mean is get a 
>private 508 compliant law.)
>
>I bring this up because as a federal worker, I've been e-mailed
>PDF's that have been scanned in and I've had to ask for the original 
>Word document so I could read it. OF course, every PDF form they put 
>up there is 508-compliant before it's released. (A couple of weeks 
>ago, there was something that wasn't compliant--it was for internal 
>office use. I was able to obtain the Word version and one of the 
>supervisors sent the PDF to the tech folks and told them to make it 
>508 compliant. That was nice of her, but we can't always expect 
>there to be the Word version still lying around or for folks to not 
>scan the document into Adobe.)
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Mike


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