Section 508 Guidelines

Section 508 is a part of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998. These guidelines serve to aid web designers in ensuring their pages are accessible to members of the public with disabilities. The Board of Regents of the University System has determined that institutions under the Board of Regents fall within the scope of Section 508. States receiving funding under the Assistive Technology Act (such as Georgia) are compelled to comply.

To this end, all official UGA websites are required to comply with Section 508 guidelines. If you would like to read more information on Section 508, please visit EITS’s page on "Web Accessibility and Persons with Disabilities."

The Office of Marketing and Communications has optimized all official Terry College of Business web pages* to meet Section 508.

More information on UGA’s 508 Compliance Policy »

Access Keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the website. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key (in IE you must hit enter); on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

All pages on this site use the following access keys for common tasks:

• Access key S : Skip Over Navigation
• Access key / : Jump to Search

Lift Assistive

The Terry College of Business website takes advantage of the Lift Assistive text transcoder. In association with the Disability Resource Center and web design experts on campus, EITS (Enterprise Information Technology Services) selected and deployed Lift Assistive, a server-based tool from UsableNet Inc. that dynamically generates customizable "text-only" views of websites.

This moves UGA towards fully accommodating individuals with visual impairments, mobile impairments, and similar challenges regarding equal access and use of UGA websites in the same ways as those without these challenges.

Transcoded pages also include a tool section by default, allowing the user to customize the page by changing font size, page colors, and other functions.

Visit Lift Assistive’s website for more information on Lift Assistive.

* Official Terry College of Business pages are defined as containing the Terry College header, global navigation, and footer. See Official Web Presence for examples.

Adobe Flash and Accessibility

By default, text inside of Flash is easily read by the two most popular screen readers "JAWS" and "Window-Eyes". There isn’t anything special you have to do to make your text accessible to screen readers. If your Flash movie is nothing more than static text, then it will probably be accessible to screen readers without any other modifications.
Visit the WebAIM website and read "Creating Accessible Macromedia Flash Content"