{"id":658,"date":"2014-04-15T19:23:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T23:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/acts\/?p=658"},"modified":"2014-04-15T19:23:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T23:23:26","slug":"accessibility-im-still-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/2014\/04\/15\/accessibility-im-still-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility, I&#8217;m Still Wrong!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I talked about the legal requirements for academia web development. I pointed to Section 508 because it was &#8220;just another section&#8221; of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Section 504 was DEFINITELY required. <\/p>\n<p>I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Upon further inspection, we are ONLY under Section 504 because Section 504 is a matter of civil rights, while 508 is &#8220;just a guideline&#8221;. Section 504 (or title III of the ADA (American&#8217;s with disabilities Act of 1990)) is what people reference when filing suit. 508 is not directly enforceable outside of government agencies. Even then it can be trumped by 504.<\/p>\n<p>So when doing things in academia, using 508 is useful in that it will get you 90% of the way there, but that 10% can still get you under 504. The trick is it&#8217;s not clearly defined. It&#8217;s left very ambiguous. This is probably a good thing from an accessibility standpoint because it can remain technology agnostic.<\/p>\n<p>So stick to WCAG 2.0 AA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I talked about the legal requirements for academia web development. I pointed to Section 508 because it was &#8220;just another section&#8221; of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Section 504 was DEFINITELY required. I was wrong. Upon further inspection, we are ONLY under Section 504 because Section 504 is a matter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111231,111233,111234],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accessibility","tag-section-508","tag-wcag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}