508 Compliance Briefing by Patrick Sheehan May 23 at 8:30 PM Eastern
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Nancy Anthracite
Apr 27, 2012, 3:49:02 PM4/27/12
to Hardhats,, Patrick Sheehan
Section 508 (http://www.section508.gov/) requires accessibility for people
with disabilities when the Federal Government develops, procures, maintains
and uses products. If a product does not comply with this legislation, it can
not be used within the federal government.
In addition, section 508 compliance is a desirable goal for all software to
allow use of screen readers, etc.
Any open source software that the VA wishes to consider adopting will have to
pass testing for 508 compliance.
Patrick Sheehan from the 508 compliance section at the Department of Veterans
Affairs Central Office will be presenting an overview of what is necessary for
Department of Veterans Affairs 508 compliance on Wednesday, May 23 at 8:30 PM
EASTERN (UT -4).
The conference call line is not free of charge but has only standard long
distance charges. The conference call line is
1-213-342-3000
Code is 123654#
Desktop sharing will be with WebHuddle. The WebHuddle session will be started
before the actual call for those of you who have never used WebHuddle to test
your connection. You can also contact me if you would like to try it sooner
than that.The WebHuddle for desktop sharing will be
<https://www.webhuddle.com/j.do?hem=nanth...@earthlink.net&pw=VistA-RPMS>
This conference will be recorded and the recording posted for download after
the conference.
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Nancy Anthracite
with disabilities when the Federal Government develops, procures, maintains
and uses products. If a product does not comply with this legislation, it can
not be used within the federal government.
In addition, section 508 compliance is a desirable goal for all software to
allow use of screen readers, etc.
Any open source software that the VA wishes to consider adopting will have to
pass testing for 508 compliance.
Patrick Sheehan from the 508 compliance section at the Department of Veterans
Affairs Central Office will be presenting an overview of what is necessary for
Department of Veterans Affairs 508 compliance on Wednesday, May 23 at 8:30 PM
EASTERN (UT -4).
The conference call line is not free of charge but has only standard long
distance charges. The conference call line is
1-213-342-3000
Code is 123654#
Desktop sharing will be with WebHuddle. The WebHuddle session will be started
before the actual call for those of you who have never used WebHuddle to test
your connection. You can also contact me if you would like to try it sooner
than that.The WebHuddle for desktop sharing will be
<https://www.webhuddle.com/j.do?hem=nanth...@earthlink.net&pw=VistA-RPMS>
This conference will be recorded and the recording posted for download after
the conference.
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Nancy Anthracite
Eddie Hagood
May 1, 2012, 8:11:30 AM5/1/12
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Hey Nancy,
Do attendees need to register for this conference?
Thanks,
Eddie
On Apr 27, 3:49 pm, Nancy Anthracite <nanthrac...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
Do attendees need to register for this conference?
Thanks,
Eddie
On Apr 27, 3:49 pm, Nancy Anthracite <nanthrac...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> Section 508 (http://www.section508.gov/) requires accessibility for people
> with disabilities when the Federal Government develops, procures, maintains
> and uses products. If a product does not comply with this legislation, it can
> not be used within the federal government.
>
> In addition, section 508 compliance is a desirable goal for all software to
> allow use of screen readers, etc.
>
> Any open source software that the VA wishes to consider adopting will have to
> pass testing for 508 compliance.
>
> Patrick Sheehan from the 508 compliance section at the Department of Veterans
> Affairs Central Office will be presenting an overview of what is necessary for
> Department of Veterans Affairs 508 compliance on Wednesday, May 23 at 8:30 PM
> EASTERN (UT -4).
>
> The conference call line is not free of charge but has only standard long
> distance charges. The conference call line is
>
> 1-213-342-3000
>
> Code is 123654#
>
> Desktop sharing will be with WebHuddle. The WebHuddle session will be started
> before the actual call for those of you who have never used WebHuddle to test
> your connection. You can also contact me if you would like to try it sooner
> than that.The WebHuddle for desktop sharing will be
>
> <https://www.webhuddle.com/j.do?hem=nanthrac...@earthlink.net&pw=VistA-RPMS>
> with disabilities when the Federal Government develops, procures, maintains
> and uses products. If a product does not comply with this legislation, it can
> not be used within the federal government.
>
> In addition, section 508 compliance is a desirable goal for all software to
> allow use of screen readers, etc.
>
> Any open source software that the VA wishes to consider adopting will have to
> pass testing for 508 compliance.
>
> Patrick Sheehan from the 508 compliance section at the Department of Veterans
> Affairs Central Office will be presenting an overview of what is necessary for
> Department of Veterans Affairs 508 compliance on Wednesday, May 23 at 8:30 PM
> EASTERN (UT -4).
>
> The conference call line is not free of charge but has only standard long
> distance charges. The conference call line is
>
> 1-213-342-3000
>
> Code is 123654#
>
> Desktop sharing will be with WebHuddle. The WebHuddle session will be started
> before the actual call for those of you who have never used WebHuddle to test
> your connection. You can also contact me if you would like to try it sooner
> than that.The WebHuddle for desktop sharing will be
>
Nancy Anthracite
May 1, 2012, 9:20:45 AM5/1/12
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Nope, just show up with bells on!
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