Programming for Accessability

Drakkon

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Aug 14, 2001
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Dealing with todays section 508 / WCAG standards is getting to be a nussance...i MUST program towards them since I work as a developer for a university and am doing web based classes and if a class isn't ready for the deaf or blind means we get sued usually.
So anyways heres the problem...I got a prof who is being a real jerk and doesn't want to have to do any more work than he has to. He has a bunch of instructional videos he wants to use with his class but he doesn't want to provide transcripts for them. He thinks he can just say "Contact me if a transcript is needed" hoping that no students will contect him for it. That way he wont ahve to do it till someone asks.
After reading the section 508 and WCAG checkpoints over it almost sounds like this would work...but the Section 508 really makes it sounds like it must have either captioning or a transcript readily availbe....
So that being said anyone have any input on this matter? or links to governmental sites that really make a clear distinction of what MUST be on a page when dealing with multimedia and what doesn't ahve to be?