Alt text provides a semantic meaning or description of the image. **Don’t Forget To Add Alt Text!**Ī key part of ensuring 508 compliance involves adding alt text for every figure and photo in technical reports, fact sheets, articles, web pages, social media, and so on. Working with a communications representative will ensure that your content goes through the proper process and is 508 compliant before publishing. Further, videos, animations, and audio files must be 508 compliant.

What It InvolvesĪll graphs, graphics, animations, fact sheets, and so on must be accessible.

For example, individuals using assistive technology (such as JAWS, a computer screen reader program) can read a document that is 508 compliant. In 1998, Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act of 1972 to require federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. Specifically, we must ensure that everything is “508 compliant.” What It Means As a leading, respected national laboratory, NREL must ensure that all of its publications and content are accessible to all people.

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