The Americans with Disabilities Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998,
which includes Section 508, "Electronic and Information Technology,"
requires electronic and information technology, regardless of its delivery
medium, to be made accessible to persons with disabilities.
The following link will explain to you, step by step, the Universally
Accessible Guidelines, the laws governing ADA compliance, methods to access
technology, and how Purdue University and its programs, schools, departments,
and units is affected by Web site compliance issues. Also included are
guidelines detailing what you can do to make sure your Web sites meet
the ADA compliance requirements.
Add Alt Tags where needed, This includes:
images, graphical representations of text (including symbols), image
map regions, animations (e.g., animated GIFs), applets and programmatic
objects, ascii art, frames, scripts, images used as list bullets,
spacers, graphical buttons, sounds (played with or without user
interaction), stand-alone audio files, audio tracks of video, and
video
<img name="purdue_logo" src="purdue.gif"
width="182" height="48" border="0"
alt="Purdue University Logo">
Ensure that all information conveyed with
color is also available without color, for example from context or
markup.
Clearly identify changes in the natural
language of a document's text and any text equivalents (e.g., captions).
Organize documents so they may be read
without style sheets. For example, when an HTML document is rendered
without associated style sheets, it must still be possible to read
the document.
Don't use the "blink" tag
Don't use frames
Ensure that pages are usable when scripts,
applets, or other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported.
If this is not possible, provide equivalent information on an alternative
accessible page.
Until user agents can automatically read
aloud the text equivalent of a visual track, provide an auditory description
of the important information of the visual track of a multimedia presentation.
For any time-based multimedia presentation
(e.g., a movie or animation), synchronize equivalent alternatives
(e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with
the presentation.
