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Vanessa Howle
04/10/2007
What is new in Accessibility
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As things have been progressing with the internet and ajax
technology, it's not as simple as it was in the past to implement
Section 508 compliancy in products just by using the 16 'rules' of
Section 508. Also the Access Board is going through a review and
refresh and will be changing the standards and requirements within
this year/18 months for future 508 compliancy.
Just making certain alt tags exist is no longer a baseline for
compliancy especially with SCORM and LMS learning systems that
the goverment is turning to more and more. I have been tackling
this very issue at my job and had a fair amount of indivduals who
were frustrated by the lack of guidance at this point for
indivduals whose jobs are to enfore and attempt 508. One key is
the old 'use the tab order'. That does not work anymore
especially in ajax, weblogic. BEA beahive, etc.
Bio:
Vanessa Howle has worked in the IT field for over 15 years, and since
the inception of Section 508 has worked religiously in that area
instituting the nebulious laws and standards in order to apply robust
accessibility to any and all applications. In the past she has worked
on contracts at NASA for Goddard Space Flight Center, the United
States Census Bureau-Department of Commerce, Department of
Transportation, and most recently the Veterans Administration on one
of their major web portal applications whose user base included a
large amount of veterans and end users with disabilities. She had
been a member of many working groups concerning Section 508, and in
November of 2006 was a guest speaker at the DC Web Woman's
conference/meeting special topic of accessibility and 508 compliance.
Vanessa Howle can be reached at vhowle (at) gmail.com.
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