Transportation Seminar Series
Section 508 Compliance: Ensuring Accessibility to Web-Based Information
Nov 17, 2009 (1:00 - 2:00 p.m., IACC 422)
Federal law requires that many types of information produced by federal agencies or under programs financed with federal funds be accessible to disabled individuals. These requirements have grown in importance as the size of the federal government and the amount of information that is subject to regulation has grown and as the Internet has emerged as the dominant method of information dissemination. In this presentation, applicable federal law, industry standards, and common practices to ensure that web-based content is accessible are presented. The seminar should of interest to those individuals whose work is funded with federal monies and whose products are subject to federal regulations on web-based information.
David Ripplinger and Patrick Nichols, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute –
NDSUDavid Ripplinger is an associate research fellow at the Small Urban & Rural Transit Center (SURTC), a program of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, located at North Dakota State University. Mr. Ripplinger's research in transit has focused on a number of areas including transportation economics, ITS, coordination, and university community transportation. Mr. Ripplinger is a member of the Paratransit and Transportation Economics Committees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). He is also the chair of TRB's Paratransit Research Committee. Mr. Ripplinger received his master's degree from Iowa State and is currently in the Transportation & Logistics Ph.D. program at North Dakota State.
Patrick Nichols is the Web Communications Manager at the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute. Patrick focuses on improving the day-to-day operation of UGPTI's websites along with developing new ways to communicate with our web users.
