21 Section 508 Links

Some useful links for those who provide web page content or design to the U.S. government.

U.S. Government Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards (Section 508) http://www.access-board.gov/508.htm
Final Standards – http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/standards.htm
Preamble (published discussion of the standards) – http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/preamble.htm
Subpart B — Technical Standards (in both Final Standards and Preamble) contains the following:
Section 1194.21 Software Applications and Operating Systems is most applicable to web page applications.
Section 1194.22 Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications is most applicable to web page design.

These standards have a requirment for any work done for any entity of the federal government since June 21, 2001.

posted at 06:55 pm on October 19, 2006 by Richard Warnock

22 Content and writing resources

Great links. What about resources for those who have to write for the web?
I’m thinking articles like those from Erin Kissane on incisive.nu What other good reference or magazine sites might compliment ALA’s Content > Writing category?

posted at 05:40 am on October 20, 2006 by Shane Morgan

23 To Degree or Not To Degree

Ok, I have BA in English and decided that I didn’t want to teach (which is sort of like flushing 4 years down the toilet, but iambic pentameter is pretty). I got a job answering emails at my college and then next thing you know, I’m doing design work and discovered 1) I’m not too bad at it and 2)I love IT!

So my question is: do I need a “degree” in order to be a web designer or should I just take some classes to learn things I have difficulty teaching myself like PHP (I already taught myself HTML and CSS)? Does the market require a degree or just a good portfolio?

posted at 07:13 pm on October 25, 2006 by Nick Tillman

24 No Typophile?

Why is there no section on typography? What The Font should be helpful to some and definately Typophile, among others.

Also listing forums for designers would be useful I think. Maybe Kirupa or Yay hooray or Designers Talk to name a few.

posted at 03:34 pm on November 21, 2006 by Jesse Phillips

25 URL still incorrect

Incorrect URL:
http://http//veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/designing_a_css_based_template_part_i/

Correct URL:
http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/designing_a_css_based_template_part_i/

Just wanting to help out your other users as Stefan Isarie did some time ago.

posted at 07:41 pm on December 21, 2006 by David Bradford

26 Untitled

If anyone has a good web design, please let me know, I am collecting them at <a >webdesignrank</a>. :)

posted at 06:46 pm on May 6, 2007 by Garrick Liyaw