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Albritton Disability Consulting Services, LLC: Your guide to Section 508 compliance

Web Access, Section 508, & WCAG

Designing for Visitors with Cognitive ImpairmentsA digram of the brain depicting various types of brain injuries - including Alzheimers Disease, Learning Disability, Traumatic Brain Injury, Stroke, Emotional Disorders, Seizures, Attention Defecit Disorder and Brain Injury.

  1. Design indicators as to whether the upcoming page structure is a picture, listing, image map, etc.
  2. Make link text descriptive but brief.
  3. Front-load pages with important information at the beginning.
  4. Use audio-on-demand applications.
  5. Maintain consistent design throughout the site.
  6. Keep screens organized and uncluttered.
  7. Design clearly laid out pages with no blinking, turning, swirling, or scrolling text.
  8. Include a graphical button-bar as a navigational aid that indicates top of the page, home page, and previous page.
  9. Provide text-based alternatives to describe charts and graphs.
  10. Use plain language describing obvious operations such as ways to reply to the webmaster or go to the homepage.