508 & W3C compliance

If you check to generate Section 508 Compliant Output AND W3C
Compliant Topics, exactly WHAT CHANGES in the help files? What is
different? improved? whatever?

Thank you Jinx1 for posting this message. While I acknowledge
the position of senior members in the availability of their time
and that they are doing a great job getting to posting, it may be
difficult for them to understand that the demand for answers to
deficiencies in compliance can be as intimidating as undergoing a
U.S. Congressional hearing depending upon how sensible the folks
are conducting the compliance checks. My perspective is that there
is value in having a centralized posting of this information. Just
consider the amount of research time and money each government
employee or contractor spends in finding these very same answers
for themselves.
That said for your immediate future, it may help for you to
change your perspective from the source file differences to the
output differences. Take a look at how testing for compliance will
be done by your governing agency. We just completed a W3C Level
1,2,3 compliance check of RoboHelp 6 webhelp having both the
settings you mentioned. There was a third-party tool used to verify
Accessibility. There are freeware versions of tools available for
accessibilty testing. It will give you the specific differences in
the htm files and identify the rules broken.
With our RH6 results, even with 508 compliance and W3C
checked, there were still elements flagged like the use of frames,
no titles for those frames, and the lack of a NOFRAMES alternative.
Also there was an applet used without any titling or an alternative
means to get it. (I'm not sure what this applet does.) The same
frame related elements are flagged in a comparison with a NON-508
compliant default-skin version. The main difference between the two
seems to be the use of non-titled images (mainly the books and page
graphics that make up the TOC), also the navigation buttons at the
top do not have alt or longdesc tags.
With either output, it may be less stressful to find out if
compliance really is YOUR problem to deal with. Was there a product
selection process and who was involved? Can they help? There may be
creative alternatives that the governing agency may come up with or
exceptions made on a case-by-case basis.
Good luck!

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Hello,
1. Is ApEx section 508 compliant? APEX can build 100% 508/DDA compliant applications. What Apex does not do is enforce 508/DDA compliance nor does it automatically insert accessibility features. Tab index's shortcuts to skip navigation , proper headings etc. This is left up to the developer to do so that you can properly address your application and or organizations accessibility requirements.
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Does ZoomSearch work with RoboHelp using all "accessible" settings?

Mr. Grainge, have been taking a look at your expertise in other discussions and would greatly appreciate your input regarding:
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No image was attached. You have to insert images using the camera icon that is available when you click Reply.
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cajun900RR wrote:
First I thought about making the page load alot faster and expending the borders of the site all the way out almost to the frames of IE, this would be a good first step.
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Steve? Do I really need all this code if I don't use insertRow()?

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