Compliancy Levels

Hillary,

I am researching section 508 and am wondering if there are levels of compliancy or if it is an all or nothing situation.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Chris Robbins

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For true compliance websites must comply with all guidelines under section 508: http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=12#Web
If you are retro-fitting an existing website I would definately suggest a phased approach. Using the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, it is possible to define 3 levels of priorities. See http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/#priorities. Bringing a website from non-complience to Priority 1compliance can prove very useful to users. Once that level has been achieved the steps to Priority 2 , then 3 can be attacked. These levels will then naturally make it easier to conform to the legal standards.