1. ColdFusion And Section 508 Michael Smith, President TeraTech, Inc
ColdFusion, Database & VB custom development
Jon Brundage

2. Introduction Michael Smith President TeraTech Run MDCFUG CFUN-2k
CF programmer and teacher
Articles in CFDJ, CFAdvisor, Fusion Authority

3. What is 508? Disabled access Blind readers Color Table Headings
JavaScript text
Applets
Timeouts

4. Blind readers Image ALT tags
But not for shim images!
Automated code search regular expressions CF Studio

5. JavaScript issues
What if user turns off JavaScript in their browser? Test for it!
Avoid Form validation pop ups
_fieldname validation
<NOSCRIPT> descriptions

6. Applets
Java
ActiveX
Provide alternatives

7. Timeouts May take much longer to process pages
Increase max session timeout in CF admin
Roll your own timeout code

8. Problem CF tags CFTREE - java CFINPUT - javascript CFAPPLET - java
CFSLIDER - java
CFGRID - java
CFSELECT - java
CFTABLE, CFCOL – no summary

9. Frames Convert to tables with CFINCLUDEs
Label your table heading and cells
<TABLE SUMMARY=“this”>
<TH ID=“x”>
<TD Headers=“x”>

10. Forms Can keyboard Tab order Labels Validation Keep them simple

11. CFINCLUDE
Skip to content link
Navigation

12. Text alternative
Database driven content

13. Questions? Ask now… … or email michael@teratech.com