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An amendment to the Workforce Rehabilitation Act of 1973, this is a federal law mandating that all electronic and information technology developed, procured, maintained, or used by the federal government be accessible to people with disabilities.
What is Section 508?
100
These tags are used to communicate organization of content on a web page page and provide in-page navigation that can be used by assistive technologies.
What are heading tags?
100
An alternate option to convey audio content on a webpage for users with hearing disabilities.
What is a transcript?
100
This type of software converts digital text into synthesized speech which allows users with vision impairments to hear content and navigate with the keyboard.
What is a screen reader?
100
DAILY DOUBLE!! A diligent brit who spear-headed an automated accessibility testing solution for the Medical team at EBSCO
Who is Lee Francis?
200
A vendor-generated statement that provides relevant information on how a vendor's product or service claims to conform to the Section 508 standards.
What is a VPAT?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!! This technique uses Roles to identify sections of a page which help assistive technology to skip over blocks of content that are repeated on multiple pages.
What is Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA)?
200
A word or phrase that can be used to convey the function and content of available images within a web page for assistive technology users.
What is alternative text (alt-txt)?
200
This type of computer software interfaces with a computer's graphical output to present enlarged screen content, suitable for low vision users.
What is a screen magnifier?
200
This famous individual without sight or hearing was quoted as saying, "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
Who is Helen Keller?
300
These two ivy league schools were very publicly sued over non-compliance with the American Disabilities Act.
Who are MIT and Harvard?
300
L, LI, Lbl, and LBody tags should be used in order to convey what information clearly to users of assistive technology.
What is a list?
300
This method of conveying information should be used only for the relationships between data and not the layout of a page.
What is a table?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!! Many users who cannot use a mouse due to vision and/or mobility disabilities are reliant on this hardware for website navigation.
What is the keyboard?
300
This individual is the founder of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is credited with creating the world wide web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
400
What set of guidelines was developed through the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in cooperation with organizations around the world, with a goal of providing a single shared standard for web content accessibility
What are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)?
400
Recommended font stack to insure greater legibility for low vision users.
What is sans serif?
400
These are recommended for PDFs that are more than 9 pages long.
What are bookmarks?
400
This hardware receives data from computer devices and embosses that information in Braille onto paper.
What is a braille printer?
400
This is the fastest growing user population that will be reliant on assistive technology.
Who are people aged 65 years and older?
500
VPAT is the acronym for this vendor-generated statement that provides relevant information on how a vendor's product or service claims to conform to the Section 508 standards.
What is the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template?
500
Ideal level AA color contrast ratio to ensure visibility for those with vision impairments.
What is 4.5:1?
500
A document can be converted to searchable text using this technology.
What is OCR (optical character recognition)?
500
This is Apple's native screen reader.
What is VoiceOver?
500
WCAG Level AAA provides some additional accessibility guidelines for users with this type of disability
What is cognitive disability?