[Athen] federal grants requiring web accessibility assurance in proposals

Heidi Scher hascherdss at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 06:40:28 PDT 2011


Thanks for the update, Howard! Any ideas to whom do we kick back all those
fed PDFs that aren't accessible???

Heidi

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Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
Associate Director
Center for Educational Access
University of Arkansas
ARKU 104
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479.575.3104
479.575.7445 fax
479.575.3646 tdd
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Howard Kramer <hkramer at colorado.edu> wrote:


> Thanks James. We're getting similar calls from faculty related to grants.

>

> -Howard

>

>

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:32 PM, James L Bailey <jbailey at uoregon.edu>wrote:

>

>> Hi Howard,

>> It is my understanding that the requirements for compliant websites

>> related to the grant are in the grant contract. It's the document the grant

>> recipient signs to get the grant. In fact, I think it's been there for a few

>> years, but (as the story goes) no one really new how check for it.

>>

>> But that's changing. A few weeks back I got a distressed call from a

>> faculty person with a grant and she said her PDF was kicked back (from the

>> feds) for not being 508 compliant. I was able to fix it for her and keep

>> things moving.

>>

>> So I think it's a real obligation, but has not really been enforced in the

>> past. That seems to be changing.

>>

>> ---

>> Best regards,

>>

>> James

>>

>> --

>>

>> James Bailey M.S.

>> Adaptive Tech Coordinator

>> University of Oregon

>>

>>

>> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:20:51 -0600

>>> From: Howard Kramer <hkramer.atsol at gmail.com>

>>> Subject: [Athen] federal grants requiring web accessibility assurance

>>> in proposals

>>> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network

>>> <athen-list at u.washington.edu>

>>> Message-ID: <BANLkTimQd0D3rkEem9RHxgN5aiTZ**GJGcwQ at mail.gmail.com<BANLkTimQd0D3rkEem9RHxgN5aiTZGJGcwQ at mail.gmail.com>

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>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

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>>> I've heard anecdotally that federal agencies are now requiring assurance

>>> of

>>> compliance with web accessibility guidelines in grant proposals. However,

>>> I

>>> can't seem to locate any specific mention of this on the web. Any help

>>> would

>>> be appreciated.

>>>

>>> Thanks,

>>> Howard

>>>

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>>> Howard Kramer

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