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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Aug 9, 2018 12:39AM

It should be noted that 504 also applies to tools developing the
system/output. Section 508 always had documentation requirements. Under the
old standards, if 1194.2x was applicable, 1194.31 and .41 were by default.
The same goes for the new standards, if Chapter 2 applies, Chapter 6 does,
which invokes 205.4:

Electronic content shall conform to Level A and Level AA Success Criteria
and Conformance Requirements in WCAG 2.0 (incorporated by reference, see
702.10.1).

EXCEPTION: Non-Web documents shall not be required to conform to the
following four WCAG 2.0 Success Criteria: 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks, 2.4.5
Multiple Ways, 3.2.3 Consistent Navigation, and 3.2.4 Consistent
Identification
Since most people who are just creating documents are not developers, many
agencies have created checklists for popular formats.

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Ryan E. Benson


On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:33 AM Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > If my web application conforms to WCAG 2.0 (or better still 2.1) at
> Level AA, does it automatically comply with Section 508?
>
> If your application allows for authoring of content then Chapter 504 of
> the revised Section 508 standards would apply to web as well.
>
> Section 508 revised also has requirements around support and documentation
> (Chapter 6) that aren't as clearly called out by the WCAG conformance
> requirements.
>
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