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RE: Section 508 Standards Compliance and Scripts

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From: Jim Thatcher
Date: Sep 4, 2003 8:30PM

Here's a plug for my Side-by-side comparison of WAI Priority 1 checkpoints
and Section 508 at http://jimthatcher.com/sidebyside.htm and the discussion
there about scripting.
It seems to me both simple and clear that to comply with WAI Priority 1
checkpoints, your page has to work with scripting DISABLED. And to comply
with Section 508 Standards one has to assume that scripting is ENABLED but
that the consequences of scripting have to be available to screen readers.
See http://www.jimthatcher.com/webcoursea.htm, for a description of
different categories of scripting and how they work with assistive
technology.

Jim
Accessibility, What Not to do: http://jimthatcher.com/whatnot.htm.
Web Accessibility Tutorial: http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm.