**Special All Day Seminar!**
Saturday, June 16, 2001, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
CHECK-IN: 9:30 to 10:00 am

Advance registration and payment required: 301-762-9372
If possible, please register by Tuesday, June 12.
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 is 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 their strengths and weaknesses in meeting the section 508 challenge.

". . . 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.

Door Prize: CPCUG Training Class 3410:
Introduction to Microsoft Project, hands on
Thursday, June 21, 7-10 pm, Lone Oak Center
http://cpcug.org/training/classes/3410.html

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

Free Parking: There's construction underway at NIH, so try to arrive a little early. (There are traffic police on the NIH campus--even on Saturday. So please observe the signs. Speeding or rolling through stop signs, or letting out passengers in unauthorized locations near the Metrorail station, for example, can result in tickets.)  You may park in the indoor parking garage of Building 10. Enter from Memorial Drive and park on the P3 level. Watch for and observe the parking signs as well. Some spaces are limited to cars driven by "handicapped" drivers and others are only for "small compact" cars. Tell any parking attendant you are attending a CPCUG event (there will be no charge). You may also park in the many outdoor parking lots.

Metro--Medical Center Station on the Red Line (about 3 blocks across the NIH campus) 

CPCUG Member-Only Door Prize Drawings at end of many meetings!

Advance Registration Required for this Special All-Day Seminar!

Registration and Materials Fee: CPCUG members, $15 (nonmembers, $60)
To register: Call 301-762-9372. If possible, please register by Tuesday, June 12.

In addition, often we have handouts, giveaways, or both. Only your advance registration enables us to have enough for everyone.