Section 508 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by
the Workforce Investment Act of 1998
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The law requires Federal agencies to purchase electronic and information
technology that is accessible to employees with disabilities, and to the
extent that those agencies provide information technology to the public,
it too shall be accessible by persons with disabilities.
- Paragraph 1194.22 contains 16 rules:
- 11 exact mapping with WCAG 1.0 checkpoints
- 5 more specific
- 4 WCAG priority 1 checkpoints not referred