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CSUN: IBM Case Study

So the IBM Case Study wasn’t exactly what I thought it would be. Basically, IBM has developed their own accessibility checklist which, if met, will mean 508 and WCAG 2.0 compliance. Creating your own standard is not the right answer as it is quite costly.

What I did find interesting is that there is a committee working to refresh Sect. 508 as it applies to technology. This could have interesting implications for us as we could be facing the scenario where we get X number of sites to be 508 compliant, only to have those same sites fail if a revised 508 law goes into effect. The upshot? While we’re required by law to be 508 compliant, 508 isn’t a very good law as it’s very specific to outdated HTML.

Apparently one of the best bits of WCAG 2.0 is that it’s meant to be technology agnostic in addition to not being country-specific as other accessibility laws apparently are. The good news is that the 508 Refresh now includes members from abroad as well as representatives from the W3C.


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2 Responses to “CSUN: IBM Case Study”

  1. Greg Says:
    March 23rd, 2007 at 7:43 am

    Do you have the IBM accessibility checklist from the meeting? Is it basically the same as this: http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/web/accessweb.html?

    Thanks,
    Greg

  2. scott Says:
    March 23rd, 2007 at 9:43 am

    If I recall correctly, they’re working on version 4 of the checklist which is only available internally at the moment. However, I got the impression it would eventually be made public; although I couldn’t comment on timeframe.