[blindlaw] 508 compliance clone?

David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
Sun May 2 23:29:18 UTC 2010


Section 508 is actually "Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 
1973, as amended."  You can go to

http://www.section508.gov

to get started.

Dave

At 07:12 AM 5/2/2010, you wrote:
>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?
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>
>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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