How do I comply with Section 508

Section 508 Compliance


How Do I Comply With Section 508?

There are four steps for determining if your website or web applications are compliant with Section 508:

  1. Scope – identify where your websites and web applications need to be compliant,
  2. Assess – determine where your websites or web applications are not meeting Section 508 requirements,
  3. Fix – correct the identified violations of Section 508,
  4. Sustain – continuously monitor your website or web applications for changes and additions to ensure they remain compliant with Section 508.

Here’s how Deque can help you identify, assess, fix, and sustain the compliance of your websites and web applications—quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively:

  1. Scope – Let Deque perform a no-charge inventory of your websites. Sign me up for a free inventory report.
  2. Assess – Deque’s Worldspace automatically assesses your website or web application for Section 508 violations and potential violations. Available as either an online subscription or for internal installation, Worldspace generates reports that give both managers and developers an at-a-glance view of progress. In addition to automated testing, our experts can test your website’s functionality and usability for you. Test-drive Worldspace Online for a Section 508 report for your website.
  3. Fix – Worldspace makes fixing accessibility violations easy by providing code-level reports for each web page, then recommending the appropriate change. Prefer to outsource this job? Then let Deque’s experts do it for you, either independently of your website developers or in collaboration with them. Send us your web page to see how our software can make it accessible.
  4. Sustain – Deque’s Continuous Monitoring Service makes sustaining your website’s compliance easy. Deque will scan your website regularly, identify any changes, and provide you with a customized, actionable report. The most efficient way to keep your website compliant, of course, is by avoiding violations in the first place. Deque can train your developers and quality assurance staff, then give them tools that identify and eliminate violations before you publish new or modified web pages. Worldspace, RAMP and a little advice from Deque’s experts have helped hundreds of customers do just that.

Contact our team to find out how Deque can become your trusted partner in Section 508 compliance.