Well, based on my admittedly limited knowledge of Section 508 compliance issues (i.e., I'm just going by "Bobby Section 508 compliance"), it appears to me that the "Forum Summary" page is compliant with all the Section 508 "accessibility" guidelines.

The forum display and topic display still need to explicitly associate form controls and their labels with a "LABEL" statement. (I believe this is in reference to the "show topics" and "hop to" functions), but that *sounds* like a fairly small change compared to what's already been done.

Although there are a number of "user checks" listed for the various pages, I don't believe that they apply to the implementation in UBB.classic. Most pages I check have these, since they aren't triggered by an actual accessibility "hurdle", but rather are points based on a judgement call that can't be determined by a programmatic analysis, and I don't believe they are a problem in this case.

I'd imagine it's not *too* difficult to insert the label statements needed, so I'm assuming UBB.classic will be 508 compliant very soon now. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I'd just like to say that I sincerely appreciate the effort you, Charles, have put into getting these changes implemented. I also appreciate StevenM's input on this, and everyone else that has contributed.

FYI, there are only a very few issues that would preclude the World Wide Web Consortium's WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) compliance as well. These are the use of absolute sizing (font and width/height) rather than relative sizing (font size="+1", or width="5%"). However, I'm not sure what issues those would raise as far as usability across different browsers, and I know that's a definite concern.

Again, I just want to thank everyone for the effort you've put into this "project".

Um, without being too "pushy", Charles, and fully realizing I don't have a *clue* how hard it's going to be to implement, can you give us an idea of when we might see the "label" statements?

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Bill
Disabilities Bulletin Board