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Section 508 refers to the amendment of the United States of America's Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which requires US Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities.

Section 508 refers to the section of the United States of America's Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which requires US Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. The law is split up into three sections:

  1. Techical Standards
  2. Functional Perforance Standards
  3. Information, Documenation, and Support

The technical standards are broken down into 6 parts. Those parts are:

1194.21 - Software applications and operating systems
1194.22 - Web-based intranet and internet information and applications
1194.23 - Telecommunication products
1194.24 - Video and multimedia products
1194.25 - Self contained, closed products
1194.26 - Desktop and portable computers

Notes:

  1. Please see Section 508.gov for more information
  2. If you were hired to make something for a federal agency, it is always good to ask which Technical Standards your product is going to be tested against, if your contract doesn't specify it.
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Section 508 and Style Sheets

I am new to style sheets and Section 508.I am trying to understand it. As i understand, style sheets provide some specific set of details on how to display a web page. For example, it can mention color, font and size to be used for all…
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Struts2 s:label issue

We need to display only 1 of the labels depending on condition. This is done through Javascript. That works fine, but the issue is we get a 508 compliant error saying 1 form element has 2 labels. The issue is with "for" in the table. Removing it…
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Accessibility: Section 508 vs WCAG

My company is based in the UK, but is involved in a website for a US based company. Our website follows the WC3 standards (WCAG 2.0) for accessibility. In terms of the USA does anyone know what the law is on accessibility? (I've heard of section 508…
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How do I Associating a Label to RadioButtonList control so it is 508 compliant?

I have tried several methods to get this control to pass 508 compliance testing, but they all seem to fail. I do not get feedback from the tester’s, only pass/fail. I suspect is has to do with the table that is automatically rendered around the…
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Scrollable Div onfocus event browser support

It appears as though certain browsers allow a scrollable div element to receive focus - and then that element has focus the user can use the arrow keys and page up/down. I'm interested in learning everything I can about this functionality, because…
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img alt attribute for "decorative" images

A question for the truly pedant I was looking through Chrome's Developer Tool's elements tab when something caught my eye and prompted this question. Though meaningful alt attributes on img tags are a necessary expectation for accessibility (
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how to implement slider in exjts without css

Using ExtJS, new Ext.slider.MultiSlider({ renderTo: 'multi-slider-horizontal', width : 214, minValue: 0, maxValue: 100, values : [10, 50, 90], plugins : new Ext.slider.Tip() }); now this will…
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Hide or insert tbody and tr tag in hidden gridview?

I'm trying to validate a page on our ASP.Net site that the developers used a gridview on. It seems that initially they are using a "placeholder" gridview that is getting hidden or visible based on some buttons being clicked to show data. Before…
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Is Disqus 508 compliant?

I'm putting together a comparison of Commenting/Idea Management tools, and one question I can't seem to find an answer to is whether Disqus if 508 compliant "out of the box." I understand that I can customize the output through the API, but if I…
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Does the Brightcove 508 compliant player support the Javascript API?

First, the Brightcove forums are useless, since you must have a Brightcove account to contribute. IA m just a dev, no account. I have been given the source for the Brightcove 508 compliant player and need to do some simple things (stop, start, jump)…
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508 Compliant data table without headers?

I need to create 508-compliant code and am running into an issue with a table that does not have headers. Each row simply contains a category name in the left column, and value in the right column. So I guess my initial question is - is this a…
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In Flex 4.5, can a DataGroup have accessibilityEnabled for all of its individual items?

I'm building a Flex app that has to be accessible and meet section 508 guidelines. Some pre-built parts of are making heavy use of DataGroup, DataGrid, and ItemRenderers. I can't get anything that was created with ItemRenderers to even receive…
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Accessibility issue with Ajaxtoolkit

I am working on Section 508 compliance for an existing application. Now when I use http://achecker.ca/checker/index.php to test my page for Section 508 it shows "script must have a noscript section." for the Ajax generated scripts. How to get Ajax…
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Tinymce - How to let the user know the shortcuts

How can we let the user know the list of shortcuts in Tinymce editor. I am doing a 508 compliant website so it should be keyboard accessible as well as the shortcuts should be play as announcement when getting focus for the blind people. Egs: If I…
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Accessibility: Whats the preferred standard compliant behavior for a drop down to be considered accessible?

I would like for the first item in the drop down to be read by the screen reader(NVDA or Jaws). Currently when tabbing through, the screen reader reads the label: "Sports Cars" and audibly says "list". Is that what is preferred or should it read the…
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