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From: Maya.Sellon@shell.com
Date: Jul 20, 2016 2:53AM

Thank you, Jonathan!

regards,
Maya


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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jonathan Avila
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 4:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] section 508 vs wcag 2.0

Maya, the US Access Board has a comparison table between WCAG 2 A/AA and the current Section 508 requirements.

https://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-ict-refresh/background/comparison-table-of-wcag2-to-existing-508-standards

Best Regards,

Jonathan

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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 7:28 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] 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