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[geekchick]

Today is Setting Orange, day 8 in the season of The Aftermath, 3167.

There's something utterly annoying about an online course on how to design to Section 508 standards that has segments that break if you're using Netscape rather than IE. And somehow their feedback form, where they ask you to report anything that might help them improve accessibility, doesn't seem to work in Netscape either. Third time in the past week that I've run into sites where people who Really Should Know Better[tm] don't bother testing in anything other than IE 5.

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Which site? I've been doing a lot of online 508 courses myself, and evaluating them as well.

If you need any 508 help, let me know; I do 508 education/outreach.

[geekchick]

It's at http://todl.anteon.com/508/asp/Content.asp?courseID=AW
I did check to verify that in fact the examples which were not being displayed for me in Netscape do show up if I'm using IE. I also found out that if I have scripting disabled in IE, I get a big ol' blank page (well, blank except for a couple of non-essential graphics). I was quite, er, impressed.

I was really just poking around to see what I could learn about the requirements, seeing as how lots of potential work around here in DC is government-related. If you have any recommendations for good sites to learn what's involved (I know about section508.gov, which is where I found the link to this particular Anteon site) and wouldn't mind, I'd love to hear about them.