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RE: 508 and "nice to have" items

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From: Bryce.Fields@kyvu.org
Date: Aug 11, 2003 1:31PM

From my understanding, accessibility is just as much (if not more) about
retrieving the information available on the site as it is about being able
to access a site's functionality. If the Flash files are on the site, an
alternate, equivalent means of accessing their information should be made
available. If it's "nice to have" for a sighted person, it's "nice to have"
for the visually impaired also.

Bryce Fields
Web Developer
Kentucky Virtual University
http://www.kyvu.org/

1-877-740-4357
1-502-573-1555 ext 288

"Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda

-----Original Message-----
From: Birdsell, John [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 11:42 AM
To: Webaim-Forum (E-mail)
Subject: 508 and "nice to have" items


I have a page that contains links to 3 informational flash videos. These
videos have no functional value on the page. They are "nice to have" items.
Now, not all departments that have access to this page allow flash files to
be viewed behind there firewalls.

I have informed folks that the videos are not compliant, and what it would
take to make them compliant. The question was posed: Since they do not
affect the functionality of the page used to access them, and not all users
can view them, can the page with there links be deemed compliant and do they
have to be compliant?

Comments?

Thank you.




Jay Birdsell
Northrop Grumman IT
Web Developer
202 - 927 - 6218


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