Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone
by Ph.D. John M. Slatin, Sharron Rush
What Is Web Accessibility?
Maximum Accessibility is a book about how to make the World Wide Web accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities, and why it’s important to do that. Let’s begin with an operational definition of accessibility. Web sites are accessible when individuals with disabilities can access and use them as effectively as people who don’t have disabilities.
That’s the definition used in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by Congress in 1998. [1] This law, usually referred to simply as Section 508, mandates that, as of June 21, 2001, all electronic and information technology used, procured, developed, or maintained by agencies and departments of the U.S. government must be accessible to people ...
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