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From: Andrews, David B (DEED)
Date: Nov 19, 2013 8:44AM

If you are following guidelines, ADA etc., things should be ok. I should say first that the legislation has only been introduced in the House, it is not law yet, and that will likely take a while, if at all. Although the NFB is persistent, and they have the publishers aboard, it will take some time, but they will keep chipping away.

The proposed legislation calls for the Government, through ATBCB to develop standards for colleges and universities to follow, and these should use existing national and international standards. So we will probably see WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 of the Rehab Act.

Most colleges and universities do a fair job with documents, books etc. The areas that might cause some people trouble are web sites, on-line learning systems -- especially, and information access hardware, such as Nooks or Kindles, if they are required.

Dave