- From: Reidy Brown <rbrown@blackboard.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:31:16 -0500
- To: "'Beth Skwarecki'" <skwareea@screech.cs.alfred.edu>
- Cc: "'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sorry, I should have been clearer about the motivation behind this question. Someone has asked me to help them with javascripts that comply to section 508 (for a govt. site, I believe). I was going to tell them the general WAIS philosophy of "if the page works without javascript, you're ok for accessibility"-- then I realized that this wasn't actually what section 508 says at all. So then the question is, "What does Section 508 require?" Anyone have any answers? Reidy -----Original Message----- From: Beth Skwarecki [mailto:skwareea@screech.cs.alfred.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 10:19 AM To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: QUESTION: use of javascript to comply with Sect 508 > What about [ ... ] client-side validation before > submitting a form? As far as I can tell, that's not disallowed by 508. Your server-side validation will provide the same functionality and "content". You *are* validating your input server-side, right? > Here's the text: > (l) When pages utilize scripting languages to display content, or to create > interface elements, the information provided by the script shall be > identified with functional text that can be read by assistive technology. ^^^^^^^^^^ [identification, not an equivalent?] That sounds like it would be valid just to have text saying "if you can't see this DHTML menu, you're missing a really nice DHTML menu. Goodbye." Surely that's not what they mean?! --beth -- http://playground.alfred.edu/~bethnewt/
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