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RE: Section 508 Standards Compliance and Scripts

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Sep 4, 2003 1:52PM

Bryce,
Checkpoint 6.3 [1] of WCAG States at a Priority 1 level: Ensure that pages
are usable when scripts, applets, or other programmatic objects are turned
off or not supported. If this is not possible, provide equivalent
information on an alternative accessible page.

So they would need some alternative to the current page or redesign the
current page to use different technologies to satisfy this requirement.

Jon


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/wai-pageauth.html#tech-scripts

At 02:15 PM 9/4/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>[from my previous post under this subject]
>"KYVU currently uses a CMS that makes a similar claim about its product
>("content written to the screen before the page loads"). Disabling
>JavaScript while using that platform makes course material inaccessible.
>All an end user receives is a one sentence message stating that the page
>won't work w/ JavaScript disabled, and no other means to access the course
>is provided. How can this be considered compliance...???"
>
>Thanks to all for the very useful feedback to date.
>
>But...how about this question, but in regards to WCAG 1.0, priority 1. This
>is the standard to which the Commonwealth of Kentucky is probably going to
>hold their sites accountable. Would a course management system that did not
>display course material when JavaScript was disabled be considered
>compliant?
>
>Bryce Fields
>Web Developer
>Kentucky Virtual University
>http://www.kyvu.org/
>
>1-877-740-4357
>1-502-573-1555 ext 288
>
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