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Accessibility and Section 508 Overview
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| Accommodating impairments |
- Accommodating
Visual Impairments
Visual impairments range in magnitude from merely annoying
to truly catastrophic. But most people either suffer from
some form of vision impairment, or will at some point in
their lives. Fortunately, many visual impairments are
relatively
simple to accommodate.
- Accommodating
Motion Impairments
Many Web users suffer some degree of motion impairment.
Like their visual counterparts, motion impairments range
from temporary to chronic, and from slight to severe.
Site navigation is obviously more difficult for motion-impaired
readers, but you can accommodate these readers by providing
large hyperlinks (or their graphical counterparts) as part
of the navigational base.
- Accommodating
learning or cognitive barriers
People for whom the web poses learning or cognitive barriers
may benefit from strategies that appeal to their learning
strengths.
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| Does your web site create
barriers, or demolish them? |
- Physical
barriers:
The Graphical User Interface (GUI) used by most browser
software, requires a mouse, but some people find the mouse
to be a barrier.
- Vision
barriers:
Information on the web usually requires reading text on
the screen. This can be a barrier for people with low vision,
for whom the text is too small, and for people who cannot
see the text at all.
- Hearing
barriers: Some web sites contain audio clips or QuickTime
movies which include an audio component. These can produce
a barrier for people who have hearing impairments.
- Barriers
to understanding: In some cases, the content itself
is a barrier. Some people have difficulty reading or understanding
print material that appears on web pages. Others have difficulty
understanding the message being conveyed by the graphics.
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| Minimizing economic barriers
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| For those who have access
to slower or older computers or modems, or computers with limitations
of RAM, clock speed, or graphics capacity, the Web can be a
frustrating place. Alternatives are available, including user-choice
between standard and minimum graphics, or alternate pages with
the same content but little or no graphics. |
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| It makes sense
to develop sites that are available to all who need them. |
| Compliance with Section 508
and the Web Accessibility Initiative makes your Web Site easier
to use. |
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| 508 compliant
design can sound easier than it really is. |
| Retrofitting
your site for 508 compliance can tax staff resources and require
specialized expertise that isn't available in-house. Consider
the experts at NetMasters for Accessibility
and Section 508 Conversion Services. |
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| Are you up to
date on the accessibility requirements? |
- By outsourcing your Section 508 compliance
work to NetMasters, Inc., you can deliver shorter deadlines,
and increase productivity.
- You will receive a web site and the
procedures and style guides you need to maintain the pages
with in-house staff, or we will keep your pages
compliant with ongoing compliance testing and maintenance.
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