Recently for a client, I was asked to lead the 508 accessibility testing efforts for multiple sites.  When working on a government client engagement, 508 compliance is essential for any site deployment, software, web application, and hardware applications (computers, networks, peripherals, etc.)   The legislation was put into place with the belief that if Federal agencies require accessible IT, then companies would offer accessible IT to the government and not have to create separate sets of products, rather they would just offer accessible IT for everyone within the same product.

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