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IT Accessibility Law and Policy
Reach Your Goals by Following a Simpler
Path To IT Accessibility!
IT Accessibility Can Seem Like a Maze of Complex Requirements
You Need a Clearer Path
Without a Guide It’s Easy to Feel Lost
… Or You Can Have a Simpler Perspective
Follow an Easy Approach to IT Accessibility Laws
Our Plan:
• Focus on an Accessible IT Infrastructure
• Avoid Common Traps (aka “Don’t Let the Exception Swallow the Rule”)
• Learn How Simple the Exceptions Really Are
Your Goal is an IT Infrastructure Built
Around Accessibility
Section 508 Focuses on an Accessible IT
Infrastructure
4 Verbs to Section 508
Develop
Procure
Maintain
Use
Section 508 is Enforceable Only for New IT
Procure
Section 508 Does NOT Address Reasonable Accommodations
ADA Title II/Section 504 Focus on an Accessible IT
Infrastructure
ADA Title II / Section 504 Focus on “Program Access”
First Step for Program Access is for IT to be Accessible
Other Program Access Requirements Build on Infrastructure Accessibility
State Laws Focus on an Accessible IT
Infrastructure
Avoid Common Traps
(aka “Don’t Let the Exception Swallow the Rule”)
Don’t Vary From the Standards
When Buying and Developing
IT
Section 508 Holds You to the Standards
Meeting the Standards Get You 90% of the Way for Other Laws
Don’t Get Confused with
Accommodating Individuals
Section 508 Doesn’t Address Reasonable Accommodations
Reasonable Accommodations Build On Section 508
508 Doesn’t Drive the
Procurement
Your Business Needs Come First
Section 508 is Considered After Business Needs
This Doesn’t Mean that Section 508 is Less Important
Understand How Simple the Exceptions
REALLY Are
Most Exceptions are Easy to Understand
Section 508 and Other Laws Never Require the Impossible
Claim Name
“It’ll blow my budget to buy it” Undue Burden
“You’re making me buy something I can’t use” Fundamental Alteration
“That’s impossible to create” Technical Infeasibility
“It doesn’t exist” Commercial Unavailability
You Don’t Have to Use Undue Burden in Almost Every Case
Buy What You Can Buy (“Commercial
Unavailability”)
Commercial Unavailability Follows Principle of Doing What You Can Do
You Can Buy Non-Compliant Products if No Compliant Products Exist
Section 508 Only Requires You to Buy the Most Accessible Product
Ask Yourself “Who is Likely to be
Using the Product?”
You Can’t be Sued for Something that Affects No One
Back Office Exemption Exempts Products that Affect No One
Example: Boss Wants a New Cell Phone
IT Accessibility Isn’t So Difficult
After All
The Path to IT Accessibility is
Clear and Simple