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From: ron
Date: Jun 10, 2013 1:28PM

That is not an uncommon experience and under the law the Fed folks who contracted for those sites are in
direct violation unless these sites fall under the security/military exemptions or are congressional sites
which are exempted under the law.

The real issue is that no one is enforcing the law and actually never have since its inception. Case in point
look at what GSA has done with their 508 supports folks. Secondly the 508 revision is a case study in
government ineptitude or more likely governmental inertia. We look at WCAG 2.0 but more take a
functional usability perspective on things and have done so since the mid-90s.

That said I am very surprised that your folks have found conformance to be such a problem. My group
evaluates, trains and remediates sites working with developers and managers on a regular basis. We work
primarily in the educational space, but this can be more difficult than the corporate space. It is not that it
is difficult or confusing. In my experienced opinion it is more about priorities, and will, than the challenges
of the standards. No dedicated resources, no dedication to usability in general and the site ends up being
crap.

Well I better go catch my plane.


Ron Stewart