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

508 Best Practices 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.

• Presentations: Making 508 Compliant PowerPoint presentations Best Practices
• 508 Compliance for CBIIT and caBIG® Documentation
• 508 Compliance for CBIIT and caBIG® Training
• How do Confluence authors comply with Section 508?

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

• 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)
• HTML (web pages) - HHS Checklist for Section 508 Compliant HTML Web Pages (http://www.hhs.gov/web/policies/checklisthtml.html)
• PDF File - HHS PDF File 508 Checklist

• Testing for 508 Compliance - HHS Instructions for testing Section 508 Compliance in Documents (http://www.hhs.gov/web/508/testdocuments.html)

• HHS General 508 Information (main index) (http://www.hhs.gov/web/508/index.html)

Other US Government Accessibility Sites

General Information from the US Government

• http://www.section508.gov/

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

Web accessibility Guidelines

• http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/

General Accessibility Sites

• http://www.cynthiasays.com/
• http://wave.webaim.org/