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Re: Government site accessibility law

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From: Hoffman, Allen
Date: Sep 22, 2010 12:21PM

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 does not require all
OS/browsers are able to access a website effectively, however, the
standards set forth in 36 CFR 1194.21 and 36 CFR 1194.22 if followed
will result, generally, in most modern browser and OS pairs working
well. Simply put, no low requires all OS/browser combinations are
interoperable with all government websites--and in my view that would be
silly. If you try you can always one that won't work, and it isn't the
website fault.

Should Lynx work on every site--maybe it should but it doesn't due to
inherent limitations it has.