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Web accessibility: Not just for tech experts anymore
Author(s) -
Taylor Zachary W.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
disability compliance for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-8001
pISSN - 1086-1335
DOI - 10.1002/dhe.30416
Subject(s) - web accessibility , web accessibility initiative , work (physics) , world wide web , web standards , web development , web service , internet privacy , computer science , business , public relations , web application security , engineering , political science , mechanical engineering
As many disability services providers and others in higher education already know, as of Jan. 18, 2018, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires institutional websites to be Level AA–compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. But practitioners may feel that web accessibility is an overly difficult technological concept to understand, leaving much of the work to the web development and programming teams at their respective institutions.