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From: Maya.Sellon
Date: Jul 19, 2016 5:51AM

Sorry for spamming the list. :(

I realized just after I hit send that I was looking at a mapping of Section 508 to WCAG 1.0. So I did some more hunting and found another reference: http://www.tomjewett.com/accessibility/508-WCAG2.html

But based off what I'm reading I think I'm back to my original question. It looks like a Section 508 page tested with the techniques listed could confirm to WCAG 2.0 level A and part of level AA, so I'm guessing in order to do this correctly, the application would need retesting against WCAG 2.0 level AA.

Is my thinking correct? Appreciate advice from anyone who has experience with this. And apologies again for the multiple emails!

From: Sellon, Maya M SI-ERP/D
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 1:36 PM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: RE: section 508 vs wcag 2.0

I just found a list of 4 checkpoints in WCAG that supposedly aren't in Section 508 on : http://jimthatcher.com/sidebyside.htm

He refers to checkpoints 1.3, 4.1, 6.2 and 14.1. The page was last updated in 2012, so I believe this is still current. Can anyone else confirm, please?

Thanks again :)

From: Sellon, Maya M SI-ERP/D
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 1:28 PM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: section 508 vs wcag 2.0

Hi all,
My company standards requires me to check against WCAG 2.0 level AA - however a tool that we're currently looking into (Formstack) only seems to have documentation against Section 508. I know there are some differences and a quick scan tells me WCAG requires specific techniques as is more current than 508, but I was hoping someone out there would have some tips/advice on how I could go about comparing this section 508-based report against WCAG?

Additionally, anything I should be on the lookout for? I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience with this and found out the hard way that you had to check for XXX or YYY.

Many thanks!
Maya