This page lists the resources for Section 508 Compliance known by the documentation team and includes in-context links to all the child pages of this page. You are invited to add links. The contents of this page are:
CBIIT and caBIG Remediation
Documentation Remediation Plan
Accessibility Progress for NCI Wiki
Section 508 Best Practices and Guidelines by CBIIT and caBIG
Please add links to best practices, remediation strategies, and any additional information you discover as we work toward our goal of 508 compliance.
Alt Text and Accessibility of Images
Visit this page to see the syntax for alt text in Confluence and MediaWiki: How do I add alt text for an image on a wiki?. Visit UML Modeling and Accessibility (a child page of this page) for information about a full alternative experience for UML Model diagrams and other images. A blog post on yaccessibilityblog.com explains What Does a Describer Do?. Documentation Team Guidelines for Alternative Experience of Images are posted in the child pages of this page.
Note
Archive older documents posted on websites. The caBIG Community Site archive is at http://cabig.nci.nih.gov/archive.
- 508 Compliance for CBIIT and caBIG® Documentation
- 508 Compliance for CBIIT and caBIG® Training
- How do Confluence authors comply with Section 508?
- caBIG_PPT_508_Quick_Guide_FINAL_July_2009.ppt
- The quick guide is used with the PowerPoint templates posted on this page: https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId=10852174
- caBIG_508_QuickGuide_Word_April_2009_Final.ppt
NCI and CBIIT Sites on Section 508 Compliance
- 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.
HHS Guidance on 508 Compliance
Note
See the section titled "Section 508 Best Practices and Guidelines by CBIIT and caBIG" for caBIG guidelines for MS Word and PowerPoint files.
- MS PowerPoint - HHS Checklist for Section 508 Compliant PowerPoint Files (http://www.hhs.gov/web/policies/checklistppt.html)
- MS Word: HHS Checklist for Section 508 Compliant Word Documents (http://www.hhs.gov/web/policies/checklistword.html)
- Preparing Word Documents for PDF Conversion: http://www.hhs.gov/web/policies/pdfaccessibility/step3.html
- HTML (web pages): HHS Checklist for Section 508 Compliant HTML Web Pages (http://www.hhs.gov/web/policies/checklisthtml.html)
- Archive (on the public Internet): http://www.hhs.gov/web/policies/webstandards/contentarch.html (caBIG Community Site archive: http://cabig.nci.nih.gov/archive)
- PDFs: PDFs: http://www.hhs.gov/web/508/pdfs/index.html
- PDF File Checklist: HHS PDF File 508 Checklist
- Testing Documents for Section 508 Compliance: http://www.hhs.gov/web/508/testdocuments.html
- HHS General 508 Information (main index) (http://www.hhs.gov/web/508/index.html)
US Government Forums and Mail lists
- NCI_508WEB email list: https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=nci_508web
- NIH_SECTION508_INFO: https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=NIH_SECTION508_INFO&A=1
- Sign up for the Weekly 508 Tip email from the U.S Department of Health and Human Services.
Other US Government Accessibility Sites
General Information from the US Government
eLearning Guidelines on Government Sites
- http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/e-learning.htm
- http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/cio/s508/06elearning.htm
Links to Other Section 508 Compliance Resources
Adobe Resources
- Adobe® Accessibility Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2008/03/reference_card_for_accessible.html
- WordToPDFReferenceCard_v1.pdf (presented by the blog page listed above) http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/assets/WordToPDFReferenceCard_v1.pdf
Web accessibility Guidelines
General Accessibility Sites
- http://www.cynthiasays.com/
- http://wave.webaim.org/
- http://virtual508.com/ (Guidelines for CBIIT and caBIG Use of Virtual508 Tools)
Screen Readers
- Use the Section 508 workstation, which has installations of JAWS and Window Eyes, at the NIH Fernwood office, 10401 Fernwood Road, Suite 3NE52.
- The main phone number is 301 496 6203 and a good contact person is Michele France.
- If you take the shuttle, the closest stop is 6100B/Green/Rockledge Route. If you drive, there is free surface parking on one side of the building and the office can arrange a sticker for garage if needed.
- When you enter Fernwood, go to the 3rd floor. Suite 300 is right next to the elevator.
- Download a free version of JAWS, which is a full version available for 40 minute use intervals. Go to http://www.freedomscientific.com/downloads/jaws/jaws-downloads.asp.
