1. IT Accessibility Law and Policy Reach Your Goals by Following a Simpler Path To IT Accessibility!

2. IT Accessibility Can Seem Like a Maze of Complex Requirements

3. You Need a Clearer Path

4. Without a Guide It’s Easy to Feel Lost

5. … Or You Can Have a Simpler Perspective

6. Follow an Easy Approach to IT Accessibility Laws Our Plan: Focus on an Accessible IT Infrastructure Avoid Common Traps (aka “Don’t Let the Exception Swallow the Rule”) Learn How Simple the Exceptions Really Are

7. Your Goal is an IT Infrastructure Built Around Accessibility

8. Section 508 Focuses on an Accessible IT Infrastructure

9. 4 Verbs to Section 508 Develop Procure Maintain Use

10. Section 508 is Enforceable Only for New IT Procure

11. Section 508 Does NOT Address Reasonable Accommodations

12. ADA Title II/Section 504 Focus on an Accessible IT Infrastructure

13. ADA Title II / Section 504 Focus on “Program Access”

14. First Step for Program Access is for IT to be Accessible

15. Other Program Access Requirements Build on Infrastructure Accessibility

16. State Laws Focus on an Accessible IT Infrastructure

17. Avoid Common Traps (aka “Don’t Let the Exception Swallow the Rule”)

18. Don’t Vary From the Standards When Buying and Developing IT

19. Section 508 Holds You to the Standards

20. Meeting the Standards Get You 90% of the Way for Other Laws

21. Don’t Get Confused with Accommodating Individuals

22. Section 508 Doesn’t Address Reasonable Accommodations

23. Reasonable Accommodations Build On Section 508

24. 508 Doesn’t Drive the Procurement

25. Your Business Needs Come First Business Needs Section 508 Standard

26. Section 508 is Considered After Business Needs Business Needs Section 508 Standards

27. This Doesn’t Mean that Section 508 is Less Important Business Needs Section 508

28. Understand How Simple the Exceptions REALLY Are

29. Most Exceptions are Easy to Understand

30. Section 508 and Other Laws Never Require the Impossible ClaimName “It’ll blow my budget to buy it”Undue Burden “You’re making me buy something I can’t use”Fundamental Alteration “That’s impossible to create”Technical Infeasibility “It doesn’t exist”Commercial Unavailability

31. You Don’t Have to Use Undue Burden in Almost Every Case

32. Buy What You Can Buy (“Commercial Unavailability”)

33. Commercial Unavailability Follows Principle of Doing What You Can Do

34. You Can Buy Non-Compliant Products if No Compliant Products Exist

35. Section 508 Only Requires You to Buy the Most Accessible Product

36. Ask Yourself “Who is Likely to be Using the Product?”

37. You Can’t be Sued for Something that Affects No One

38. Back Office Exemption Exempts Products that Affect No One

39. Example: Boss Wants a New Cell Phone

40. IT Accessibility Isn’t So Difficult After All

41. The Path to IT Accessibility is Clear and Simple