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[2] According to the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, “This is consistent with language used in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other civil rights legislation, where the term ‘undue burden’ has been defined as ‘significant difficulty or expense.’ However, the agency must explain why meeting the standards would pose an undue burden for a given procurement action, and must still provide people with disabilities access to the information or data that is affected.”
[3] Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board. (2000). Electronic Information Technology Accessibility Standards; Final Rule. Federal Register.
[4] See Appendix B for a summary of the 508 standards pertaining to software applications and operating systems.
[5] See Appendix B for a summary of the 508 standards pertaining to software applications and operating systems.
[6] An equivalent element or page conveys all essential information of the original.
[7] The W3C issues the following statement about Priority 1 checkpoints: “A Web content developer must satisfy this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it impossible to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint is a basic requirement for some groups to be able to use Web documents.
[8] A style sheet is the default template for one or more pages. The style sheet includes information about the appearance and layout of a page, and is often applied to a group of pages to attain consistency.
[9] A server-side image map requires a script, or set of instructions, from the server to display the active regions of the image map.
[10] A client-side image map displays the active regions of an image map without a script, or set of instructions, from the server.
[11] A frame is part of a Web page that can be controlled independently. For example, a Web page might include frames, one containing links and another containing the unique text that appears on the page.
[12] Section 1194.21 governs software applications and operating systems.
[13] A Failsafe measure allows the Web page creator to provide a link to a text-only version of a page when it is not possible to make a Web page accessible.
[14] A script is a set of directions written in one program to be interpreted by another program. For example, a script can provide your browser with a sequence of instructions on how to display a Web page with animations and sounds.
[15] A form processes input from the user. For example, when you sign up for a Web-based e-mail account, you fill out an electronic form.
[16] A time-out is a dropped connection between the user host and the server that delivers page information.