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Re: Section 508 VPAT question

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: May 4, 2021 10:37AM

Essentially 502 and 503 do not apply to websites as long as they are WCAG conformant. The rub is that if they are not conformant then it could be read that they do apply - in practice people do not report on these for websites when they don't apply. One seemly accidental omission is that 503.4.x was meant to apply to website as it covers captions/audio description controls - but that is often implicitly covered by WCAG unless open captions/integrated AD are provided.

Jonathan