SECTION 508 Compliance

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SECTION 508 Compliance

• And
• BLACKBOARD

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WHY

• These guidelines explain how to make Web content
  accessible to people with disabilities. The
  guidelines are intended for all Web content
  developers (page authors and site designers) and
  for developers of authoring tools.
• The primary goal of these guidelines is to
  promote accessibility. However, following them
  will also make Web content more available to all
  users, whatever user agent they are using (e.g.,
  desktop browser, voice browser, mobile phone,
  automobile-based personal computer, etc.) or
  constraints they may be operating under (e.g.,
  noisy surroundings, under- or over-illuminated
  rooms, in a hands-free environment, etc.).
• Following these guidelines will also help people
  find information on the Web more quickly.
• These guidelines do not discourage content
  developers from using images, video, etc., but
  rather explain how to make multimedia content
  more accessible to a wide audience

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How this applies to Blackboard
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The Guidelines

• See handout titled 1194.22 Web-based intranet
  and internet information and applications.

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Alt Tags
A text equivalent for every non-text element
shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc",
or in element content).
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Text Equivalents
Anguilla - Antigua and Barbuda - Aruba - Bahamas
- Barbados - Bermuda - Cayman Islands - Cuba -
Dominica - Dominican Republic - Grenada -
Guadeloupe (French) - Haiti - Jamaica -
Martinique (French) - Montserrat - Netherlands
Antilles - Puerto Rico - Saint Kitts Nevis -
Saint Lucia - Saint Vincent Grenadines -
Trinidad and Tobago - Turks and Caicos Islands -
Virgin Islands
Using the map of the Caribbean find the colonial
power that ruled each territory in the 1700s
This guideline emphasizes the importance of
providing text equivalents of non-text content
(images, pre-recorded audio, video).
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Color
YESSpecial Emphasis Samuel Bellamy Mary
Read Edward Teach Regular Emphasis Maurycy
Beniowski Stede Bonnet Anne Bonny William
Dampier Francis Drake Thomas Jones William
Kidd Jean Laffite Henry Morgan John
Rackham Bartholomew Roberts
NO Samuel Bellamy Maurycy Beniowski Stede
Bonnet Anne Bonny William Dampier Francis
Drake Thomas Jones William Kidd Jean
Laffite Henry Morgan John Rackham Mary
Read Bartholomew Roberts Edward Teach
Web pages shall be designed so that all
information conveyed with color is also
available without color, for example from
context or markup
Write a short profile on each these Pirates with
special emphasis on the items in red
Write a short profile on each these Pirates with
special emphasis on those denoted
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Rows and columns

• Row and column headers shall be identified for
  data tables

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Plug-ins

• When a web page requires that an applet, plug-in
  or other application be present on the client
  system to interpret page content, the page must
  provide a link to a plug-in or applet that
  complies with 1194.21

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