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From: Bevi Chagnon
Date: Apr 4, 2012 9:32AM

True, being a corporate entity, Sec. 508 doesn't apply to their website.
I meant to say "I wonder if their webmasters have heard about WCAG2 yet" but
my coffee's caffeine hadn't kicked in when I sent the email. <g>

But it's not wise for a business that caters to the Federal government to
create not only inaccessible text, but nearly unreadable text for sighted
viewers, too.

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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Example of poor website colors for accessibility

> http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20120403_2451.php

A few thoughts:

There is nothing in Section 508 that requires adequate contrast or that
discourages the use of hard-to-read colors. It only requires that
"information conveyed with color is also available without color". The text
colors used on this site are Section 508 compliant.

Nextgov.com is, as you note, a corporate entity and is not governmental, so
Section 508 would not apply to them anyway.

This doesn't excuse their inaccessibility, but if one were to beat them with
a stick, the Section 508 stick is about the worst one to use.

Jared