National Dialogue on Improving the Section 508 Program

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  Pilot 508 Interagency Best Practices and Shared Services Cost-Sa

  Optimize 508 administrative services across the Federal Government by 1) Benchmark interagency Best Practices and Lessons Learned to support refinement of existing 508 processes and policy and development of a new Department-wide 508 Strategic Plan 2) Determine feasibility of a Shared Services Cost-Savings Model where one agency provides Braille and other services for a fee such as the existing Federal Occupation Health ...more »

  Optimize 508 administrative services across the Federal Government by 1) Benchmark interagency Best Practices and Lessons Learned to support refinement of existing 508 processes and policy and development of a new Department-wide 508 Strategic Plan 2) Determine feasibility of a Shared Services Cost-Savings Model where one agency provides Braille and other services for a fee such as the existing Federal Occupation Health (FOH) model.

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  Eliminate Waste of Federal Resources Used to Retrofit ICT

  How can we eliminate waste of Federal resources used to retrofit ICT? People with disabilities are left behind when the Federal government does not adopt accessible ICT technology or implement the Section 508 Standards. If government doesn’t adopt and implement accessibility as part of its overall IT strategic planning, including: IT Modernization planning; Consolidation efforts; Shared services planning; adoption ...more »

  How can we eliminate waste of Federal resources used to retrofit ICT? People with disabilities are left behind when the Federal government does not adopt accessible ICT technology or implement the Section 508 Standards. If government doesn’t adopt and implement accessibility as part of its overall IT strategic planning, including: IT Modernization planning; Consolidation efforts; Shared services planning; adoption of cloud computing; and Others, there is a waste of Federal resources and disregard for the skills and abilities of people with disabilities. The future technologies designed and purchased by the Federal government will continue to be inaccessible and the cost of retrofitting will continue to consume Federal technologists time and efforts to eliminate accessibility barriers. How can we get beyond implementation of Section 508 and be proactive to make new technologies adopted by the Federal government work for people with disabilities?

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  Need for an Agency to Sponsor a Community of Practice

  It is hard enough for agencies to collaborate between one another, but what is harder is collaboration with States, Academia, Advocates, and Industry. A government focused community of practice should have contributors from all these perspectives since they are all stakeholders in Section 508. In order to navigate Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) rules, a sponsoring agency is needed.

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  Open Dialogue and Transparency

  No one likes to be chained to certain set of rules and guidelines. Even though most will agree that Rules and Guidelines are needed in order to have structure, most will also agree that having freedom and flexibility to find what works best for your agency. The problem is that there is no place for different agencies to place their success stories or their struggles. This will allow agencies to see what works and what ...more »

  No one likes to be chained to certain set of rules and guidelines. Even though most will agree that Rules and Guidelines are needed in order to have structure, most will also agree that having freedom and flexibility to find what works best for your agency. The problem is that there is no place for different agencies to place their success stories or their struggles. This will allow agencies to see what works and what doesn't work. But in order for this to become successful everyone needs to be on board and participating

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  Submitted by davidpaulrice 1 year ago

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  Open 508 to a Wide Community of Practice

  Right now 508 decisions are made with almost no transparency. This leads to disparities among agencies, and insufficient information about accessibility for other decisionmakers -- basically everyone who buys or uses ICT. (Remember, 508 is supposed to benefit the entire ICT market.) For example, why are VPATs treated as private communications between an agency and a vendor? All information about ICT accessibility should ...more »

  Right now 508 decisions are made with almost no transparency. This leads to disparities among agencies, and insufficient information about accessibility for other decisionmakers -- basically everyone who buys or uses ICT. (Remember, 508 is supposed to benefit the entire ICT market.) For example, why are VPATs treated as private communications between an agency and a vendor?

  All information about ICT accessibility should be public, and published in a manner most likely to see it shared usefully across the entire user base. Mainstream and AT vendors, people with disabilities, ICT implementation managers, advocacy organizations, researchers -- all have a lot of expertise to offer. Sharing our testing results and methodologies, AT compatibility notes, tips and tricks, etc. will immediately improve accessibility, and build long-term resources.

  Ironically, it's been non-federal folks, especially higher ed, who've done a great job already in this direction. But the information is still too tightly held.

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  Submitted by Jim Tobias 1 year ago

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  Product testing for 508 compliance

  Currently each agency is making determinations as to whether a product is 508 compliant. A central location for sharing product testing for accessibility, by product name and version, would save each agency from having to replicate testing over and over again. We could start with major applications such as Windows and Lotus Notes. Most agencies are spending significant dollars to make some major procurements, such ...more »

  Currently each agency is making determinations as to whether a product is 508 compliant. A central location for sharing product testing for accessibility, by product name and version, would save each agency from having to replicate testing over and over again. We could start with major applications such as Windows and Lotus Notes. Most agencies are spending significant dollars to make some major procurements, such as Sharepoint accessible. There ought to be a way for the federal government to coordinate and centralize testing and sharing of results of accessibility for electronic and information technology. It would save the government money if this could be done before agencies can purchase it. Almost like a prequalification step.

  Comment from Accessibility Committee virtual listening session, Sept 8, 2011

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