Section 508 (2000) Accessibility Standard

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (amended 29 U.S.C. 794d) requires that US Federal employees with disabilities have access to information comparable to employees without disabilities. The technical requirements for websites were based on WCAG 1.0 level A with some additions.

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act - 65 FR 80499 (2000)

Rules

This section lists the 50 rules covering 12 checkpoints for Section 508 (2000) supported by the current version of the product.

Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (1194.22)

1194.22 (a) Text equivalents for non-text - 15 rules

Applet with no fallback content (HTML)
Image map has no accessible name (HTML)
ARIA image has no accessible name (HTML)
Image has no accessible name (HTML)
alt is image file name (PDF and HTML)
Graphic button has no accessible name (HTML)
Object with no fallback content (HTML)
ASCII art used for text alternative (HTML)
Image accessible name uses placeholder (HTML)
PDF graphic has no accessible name (PDF)
button image must have alt (HTML)
PDF not tagged (PDF)
PDF security blocks accessibility (PDF)
SVG has no accessible name (HTML)
Word graphic has no accessible name (Office documents)

1194.22 (b) Alternatives for multimedia - No rules

1194.22 (c) Don’t rely on color alone - 2 rules

Alt text does not convey color information (HTML)
Links only indicated by color (HTML)

1194.22 (d) Don’t require stylesheets - 2 rules

CSS position: causes meaningless sequence (HTML)
CSS content: not available to all users (HTML)

1194.22 (e) Redundant links for server-side image maps - No rules

1194.22 (f) Use client-side instead of server-side image maps - 1 rule

Server-side image maps are inaccessible (HTML)

1194.22 (g) Table headers - 2 rules

Data table without th headers (HTML)
Word table without row and column headers (Office documents)

1194.22 (h) Multiple level table headers - 1 rule

Complex header associations need headers attribute (HTML)

1194.22 (i) Frame titles - 3 rules

Frame has no accessible name (HTML)
Frame title is frame file name (HTML)
Frame title must describe function (HTML)

1194.22 (j) No flicker - 4 rules

1194.22 (k) Text only page when all else fails - No rules

1194.22 (l) JavaScript - 7 rules

mouseup handler without keyboard equivalent (HTML)
mouseover handler without keyboard equivalent (HTML)
mouseout handler without keyboard equivalent (HTML)
mousedown handler without keyboard equivalent (HTML)
click handler without keyboard equivalent (HTML)
dblclick handler without keyboard equivalent (HTML)
JavaScript simulated link (HTML)

1194.22 (m) Applets and plugins - No rules

1194.22 (n) Forms - 8 rules

fieldset with no interactive elements (HTML)
Field blurs when focused (HTML)
ARIA control has no label (HTML)
HTML form control has no accessible name (HTML)
ARIA label references empty element (HTML)
input button without value or label (HTML)
ARIA button is blank (HTML)
HTML button has no accessible name (HTML)

1194.22 (o) Skip links - 1 rule

Broken skip link (HTML)

1194.22 (p) Timed responses - 4 rules