Being a government site it is required to be accessible via Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Great hierarchy structure and use of ARIA landmark roles.
The proposed new standard for Section 508 is expected to require conformance to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA. But what does this mean? This page poses some specific questions about WCAG 2.0 conformance and provides basic answers to help understand WCAG 2.0 conformance requirements.
There are many variations of the UCD process. It can be incorporated into waterfall, agile, and other approaches. Depending on your needs, the user-centered design process is composed of several methods and tasks. What you are developing, your requirements, team, timeline, and the environment in which you are developing will all help determine the tasks you perform and the order in which you perform them.
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that businesses and nonprofit services providers make accessibility accommodations to enable the disabled public to access the same services as clients who are not disabled. This includes electronic media and web sites.
HTML_CodeSniffer is a client-side script that checks HTML source code and detects violations of a defined coding standard. HTML_CodeSniffer is written entirely in JavaScript, does not require any server-side processing and can be extended by developers to enforce custom coding standards by creating your own "sniffs".
Economists have taught us that a lot of choice is not always a good thing. Having many options can lead to "analysis paralysis" and a feeling of being overwhelmed, due to the increased effort required and the level of uncertainty in making the right choice.