Working Within the Enterprise
Toward Accessible Web Information and Services

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Standards

  • Synthesize Your Own Standards

    • Derived from Section 508, WAI-WCAG, or both
    • Developed to simplify support
    • Integrates standards into other standards or policies
    • Requires great effort to create, greater effort to maintain
    • May not have legal standing because of its uniqueness

  • Adopt Existing Standards

    • Someone else does the creation and maintenance
    • Generally accepted standard that may have legal weight
    • Support available from other sources

STC Region 7 Conference - Vancouver BC - November 7-9, 2002