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IT Accessibility Law and Policy Reach Your Goals by Following a Simpler Path To IT Accessibility!
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IT Accessibility Can Seem Like a Maze of Complex Requirements
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You Need a Clearer Path
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Without a Guide It’s Easy to Feel Lost
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… Or You Can Have a Simpler Perspective
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Follow an Easy Approach to IT Accessibility Laws Our Plan: Focus on an Accessible IT Infrastructure Avoid Common Traps (aka “Don’t Let the Exception Swallow the Rule”) Learn How Simple the Exceptions Really Are
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Your Goal is an IT Infrastructure Built Around Accessibility
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Section 508 Focuses on an Accessible IT Infrastructure
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4 Verbs to Section 508 Develop Procure Maintain Use
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Section 508 is Enforceable Only for New IT Procure
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Section 508 Does NOT Address Reasonable Accommodations
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ADA Title II/Section 504 Focus on an Accessible IT Infrastructure
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ADA Title II / Section 504 Focus on “Program Access”
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First Step for Program Access is for IT to be Accessible
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Other Program Access Requirements Build on Infrastructure Accessibility
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State Laws Focus on an Accessible IT Infrastructure
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Avoid Common Traps (aka “Don’t Let the Exception Swallow the Rule”)
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Don’t Vary From the Standards When Buying and Developing IT
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Section 508 Holds You to the Standards
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Meeting the Standards Get You 90% of the Way for Other Laws
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Don’t Get Confused with Accommodating Individuals
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Section 508 Doesn’t Address Reasonable Accommodations
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Reasonable Accommodations Build On Section 508
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508 Doesn’t Drive the Procurement
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Your Business Needs Come First Business Needs Section 508 Standard
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Section 508 is Considered After Business Needs Business Needs Section 508 Standards
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This Doesn’t Mean that Section 508 is Less Important Business Needs Section 508
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Understand How Simple the Exceptions REALLY Are
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Most Exceptions are Easy to Understand
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Section 508 and Other Laws Never Require the Impossible ClaimName “It’ll blow my budget to buy it”Undue Burden “You’re making me buy something I can’t use”Fundamental Alteration “That’s impossible to create”Technical Infeasibility “It doesn’t exist”Commercial Unavailability
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You Don’t Have to Use Undue Burden in Almost Every Case
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Buy What You Can Buy (“Commercial Unavailability”)
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Commercial Unavailability Follows Principle of Doing What You Can Do
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You Can Buy Non-Compliant Products if No Compliant Products Exist
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Section 508 Only Requires You to Buy the Most Accessible Product
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Ask Yourself “Who is Likely to be Using the Product?”
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You Can’t be Sued for Something that Affects No One
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Back Office Exemption Exempts Products that Affect No One
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Example: Boss Wants a New Cell Phone
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IT Accessibility Isn’t So Difficult After All
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The Path to IT Accessibility is Clear and Simple
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