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From: Margit Link-Rodrigue
Date: Dec 9, 2009 11:00AM

Sorry about the confusion. When I say Section 508, I mean the spirit of the
law which clearly strives to make Information Technology accessible to all.
I understand that the actual verbiage in the law relates only to federal and
federally funded agencies, and also that WCAG 2.0 wasn't around when Section
508 took effect, and that Section 508 standards were mapped to certain WCAG
1.0 checkpoints.

However, Section 508 is often quoted in a broader sense, and I still think
to meet Section 508 in 2009 means meeting WCAG 2.0 success criteria.
Everything else would be thinking backwards The web is much more complex
than it was in 1998.

Margit

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> The WCAG 2.0 success criteria are for WCAG 2.0, not Section 508. There is
> overlap, but if you want to meet Section 508 you do not necessarily need to
> meet all WCAG 2.0 success criteria.
>
> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
>
> Senior Product Manager, Accessibility
>
> Adobe Systems
>
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto:
> <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Margit Link-Rodrigue
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:34 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] WCAG 2.0 Compliance criteria for internal or non
> public websites
>
> You have to ask yourself what you are trying to achieve. If you want to
> meet
> legal requirements as defined in Section 508, then you have to meet all
> success criteria for WCAG 2.0, including 1.1.1 which refers to audio
> content
> and is a Level A requirement.
>
> If you simply want to comply with some company rules and processes (e.g.
> CMMI), then your company has to clearly state in your supporting
> documentation that you are currently striving for partial compliance and
> what your timeline is to achieve full compliance.
>
> It is unethical, in my opinion, if you are trying to award yourself a
> compliance seal if you leave out potential future employees/Intranet users
> that are hearing impaired. Intranet or not doesn't matter, because the
> location of the file is a temporary aspect and the lines between
> Intranet/Extranet/Internet usually get blurrier the larger a company grows.
>
> Thanks,
> Margit
>