**Special All Day Seminar!**
Handout: 200 pages!
In addition, while supplies last, there will be copies of 
"Web Site Accessibililty Remediation Guide" from HiSoftware
3 Door Prizes: AccVerify for FrontPage, courtesy of HiSoftware

Saturday, October 6, 2001
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
CHECK-IN: 9:30 to 10:00 am (access via doorkeeper at this time)

NOTE: New Location!
National Cancer Institute, 3rd Floor Conference Room, 6116 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, Maryland (map--see building 15)

Advance registration and payment required: 301-762-9372
Register by Tuesday, October 2
Registration and Materials Fee:
CPCUG members, $15 (nonmembers, $60)
Making Web Sites Accessible
Implementing Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act

Speaker: Walter Houser, Webmaster for the Department of Veterans Affairs and Co-Chair, Federal Webmasters Working Group, Federal CIO Council

Is your Web site ready to serve the disabled? Those razzle-dazzle graphics and image maps that so appeal to the sighted can be burdensome to the disabled. A webmaster's appetite for rich eye candy needs to be tempered with low-calorie HTML code.

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. 794d), as amended by Public Law 106-246, requires that federal agencies and their contractors provide equivalent access to members of the public and federal employees with disabilities. Government departments and agencies face legal sanctions if their Web sites are inaccessible to users with disabilities.

The Department of Justice has warned federal webmasters that the public and employees with disabilities may file administrative complaints with agencies they believe to be in violation of section 508 or may file private lawsuits in federal district court. 

The deadline for compliance was June 21, 2001.

This presentation will cover the Access Board's section 508 Web accessibility provisions, 36 C.F.R. pt. 1194.22, found at www.access-board.gov, and the technical methods for implementing them. Attendees will get up-to-date information on how best to comply with the law. Mr. Houser will also cover commercial and noncommercial tools, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of these software tools in meeting the section 508 challenge. There will be live demos of the newest of these tools for developing accessible Web sites.

This seminar will cover the material presented in the June 16, 2001, seminar on the same topic, updated to reflect what's happened since the date for section 508 compliance has passed, and what has been learned.

". . . a stunning amount of legal, policy, and practical material. Houser put this library of material together and has performed a great service to the public and for federal agencies. [He] takes the mystery out of complying with section 508 and helps you today with advice on the nitty gritty, how do I get it done on the Web now." 

"Your pages are succinct and well crafted." 

There will be a short break during the morning and the afternoon sessions.

Seminar Description | Speaker Information | Meeting Agenda | Location  | Registration

Map--off-campus; building 15 on the map

Parking: Free. Use lot at side of building

Door will be locked--those on the registration list will be admitted by a doorkeeper between 9:30 and 10:00 am.

Advance Registration Required for this All-Day Seminar!

Registration and Materials Fee:
CPCUG members, $15 (nonmembers, $60)
To register: Call 301-762-9372.
Register by Tuesday, October 2.