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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Aug 21, 2015 1:08PM

Kurt wrote:
" I find it interesting that, to my knowledge, no federal agency has decided "Section 508 is getting long in the tooth -- let's use the Equivalent Facilitation clause[3] and choose WCAG 2.0 as our new accessibility standard." "

FYI, most federal agencies here in Washington DC don't have a clue what "508" is.
Those that do have a 508 policy are lucky and have made some progress, but the political appointees who head up the agencies are still clueless.
So it's unlikely they'll make any decision on implementing 508 within their agency in the near future.

And now that's it's election season, not much will change for the next 2 years...after the election and new top brass are appointed by the president to head up the agencies. Timeline:
Nov 2016, election
Jan 2017, inauguration
Jan 2018, final appointments of agency heads.
June 2018, real work commences at the agencies.

Here in DC, we all are just trading water for the next 18-24 months. Same ol' same ol'. On this point, it doesn't matter which party is elected, either.

—Bevi Chagnon

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