RE: The Section 508 compliance site... isn't

Subject: RE: The Section 508 compliance site... isn't
From: "Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 14:42:07 -0400


Follow-up: At the same time that I sent the message below to TECHWR-L, I
contacted the Section 508 folks. Yesterday I received a polite answer that
they were fixing the problem, and as of today, they finally comply with
their own regulations.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Goldstein, Dan
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:42 PM
> To: TECHWR-L (E-mail)
> Subject: The Section 508 compliance site... isn't
>
> www.section508.gov is the official Federal site for Section
> 508 compliance. The site features the full text of the
> Section 508 Standards, including two graphics that illustrate
> the "Vertical Plane Relative to Operative Control" and the
> "Height of Operative Control Relative to a Vertical Plane."
>
> In a classic example of ironic bureaucratic humor, those two
> graphics are missing the "alt" text required by Section 508.
>
> See:
> http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=19
> http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=20
>
> Dan Goldstein
>

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