My take on 508 & Universal Access

“I never,” he said, “take a step to one side.”

Unreferenced and truncated facts and perhaps some unsanctioned initialisms:
1. The Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964 and then the Rehabilitation Act (RA) of 1973, which contains many sections one of which is Section 508, led to The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which became effective in 1992. The ADA was reinforced by congress in 1998 with amendments to Section 504 and 508.
  1. Section 508 requires that any information technology that is developed, procured, maintained, or used by the Federal government to be accessible to people with disabilities.
  2. Section 504 discerns the Who, What, When, Where, and Why governmental agencies ought to abide by any and/or all of the above.
2. A by-product of the RA of 1973 was the Access Board, or the Architectural and Transportation Compliance Board.
  1. The Access Board wrote Subpart B of Section 508 which contains the section 1194.22, Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications, aka what’s in my head while I’m building your website.
In the end I will reference the USG Accessibility Design Course because it’s a bit more extensive. My goal here was to summarize and condense for future referencing when someone asks me, "Why?".

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