Section 508 Compliance for CBIIT and caBIG® Training and Documentation

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CBIIT and caBIG Remediation

Please add links to best practices, remediation strategies, and any additional information you discover as we work toward our goal of 508 compliance.

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http://mynci.cancer.gov/admin/508 NOTE: this site requires that you have an NIH login id/password
CBIIT intranet site: http://CBIIT508Help.nci.nih.gov (Available within the firewall; login required) (Details about the site from Janene Nusraty by email April 29, 2010 as follows):
- Details of remediation timeframe
- Access to view Accenture reports and your site or applications scores (HHS is currently running monthly scans of all of CBIIT's public facing sites and applications. These scans are usually done in the third week of each month.)
- Overview of the Accenture tool, user roles, and issue management (beginning with easily remediated areas covered by the following reports):
  - (cH) Custom Color Report
  - (dH) Custom Readability Report
  - (jH) Flicker Rate Custom Report
  - Link Integrity
  - External Link Integrity
- Overview of development server testing
- How to perform remediation for each of the 19 checkpoints on your report.
  - The intranet provides details on how your score is calculated for each of the checkpoints and then provides specific information on the required remediation process.
  - Our remediation explanation is derived directly from HHS's own Section 508 guidelines and pulls all of their information in a more easy to find format.
  - In compliance with their guidelines CBIIT has also developed code standards for implementation.