Jon Brundage

There's a new federal law, known as Section 508, that requires disabled accessibility to government Web sites. We'll explain what you have to do to comply, how ColdFusion can help (or hinder), and why 508 isn't a bad thing after all. Imagine Imagine you can't see and you have a friend read you the HTML source for a Web page over the phone so you can understand the site. That's what viewing a site with a screen reader is like. Imagine minutes of hearing header HTML code for navigation - with cryptic image filenames and no English description. Imagine complex table layouts with no clue as to what each number means. Imagine applets that you don't know anything about because there's no HTML source for them. Welcome to the world of blind Web users. Section 508 is aimed at making it easier for them to read your Web pages. Section 508 Basics As many programmers for the fed... (more)