[Sigia-l] 508 Compliance preparedness

[Shep McKee]

Jason,

(no flame intended) By Tier 1 of Section 508 - are you referring the  
Priority 1 Checkpoints of the WCAG? It's good to have your team all  
start out on the same page (my first war story). An additional issue  
is - are you more concerned with compliance - or is the goal to build  
an accessible product (my second war story).  Jakob has recently put  
his 2 cents in in this subject & a great deal of discussion in the  
blogosphere followed...

Accessibility Is Not Enough
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/accessibility.html

You might want to take a look at the Voluntary Product Accessibility  
Template (VPAT). If you are selling to the government, a description  
of your level of compliance is often required. Relevant links here:
http://del.icio.us/shep.mckee/vpat

Regards, Shep

On Dec 8, 2005, at 8:54 AM, <signal at received.com>  
<signal at received.com> wrote:

> Hello all...
>
> My team is about to embark on a process of refining an existing web
> services application to make it conform to USA accessibility  
> standards,
> as outlined in Tier 1 of the 508 guidelines.
>
> If anyone has any war stories (success or failure) related to this  
> sort
> of effort, white papers or case studies that are publicly  
> accessible, or
> any words of wisdom as we head down this path, I would be forever
> grateful to this community!
>