Web Accessibility & Section 508

Getting Started with Web Accessibility and Section 508

Guiding Principles of the Web Committee, Why Section 508 at CSU?

More resources on web accessibility and Section 508

Brief Legal Overview

Most common CSU Section 508 Website Repair needs

• Alt attributes for graphics/images
• Using Links
• Form Controls and Label elements
  • FIELDSET and LEGEND
  • LABEL Element
  • ACCESSKEY and TABINDEX
• Default, place-holding characters in edit boxes and text areas
• Alternative text for all image map hot-spots
• Data Tables
• Structural Markup
• <NOSCRIPT> tags

Getting Help with Repairing Your Website

Using PDF files

What to tell your Techie about Section 508

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