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MattCherry
Community Member
9 years ago

CDC and 508 Accessibility

Hello, We recently received the following message from the CDC: Dear CDC Partners, As federal grantees, you are aware of Section 508, an amendment to the United States Workforce Rehabilitati...
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MattCherry
Community Member
9 years ago

At the same time I started this thread, I also sent a message to the "508 compliance" contact at the CDC. I pointed them to Articulate's article on 508. This is the response that I got 2 minutes ago.

"Hopefully your projects are at a point where the switch to Lectora can be made with minimal impact.  Due to potential 508 compliance issues, CDC has made the decision that Articulate products should not be used. 

Among the concerns is that Storyline courses work OK with Jaws but not with other assistive technologies.  Also Flash is used, which is not 508 compliant."

Again, I'm hoping an Articulate staff member might be able to chime in here and tell me if they think the argument is worth being made. Otherwise, I guess we'll be going with another authoring tool.

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    ShannonFineran
    Community Member
    9 years ago

    Thank you for flagging this, Matt. We are also experiencing the same issue, so we're eager to hear Articulate's response.