As a laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, SLAC's web pages must adhere to web accessibility conventions wherever possible, per Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. This ensures that people with disabilities, including employees and the general public, have access to the same information as others.

InfoMedia Services can help you find out if your SLAC web pages meet accessibility requirements, and we can help you get your pages compliant. If you would like our assistance, request a Compliance Review of your website. Using strict XHTML and always providing descriptive text alternatives to images are two techniques that together go a long way to ensuring accessibility tools used by the disabled are able to accurately read web pages.

Here are some resources that can help you create accessible web pages:

• Section508.gov - The U.S. Government's website with a full description of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
• WebAIM's Section 508 Checklist - A very useful resource created by the Center for Persons with Disabilities and Utah State University, detailing common accessibility pitfalls and best practices for avoiding them.

If you encounter an accessibility issue while using the SLAC website, please let us know so we can correct it. Send an email to wim@slac.stanford.edu or the web page's contact (found at the bottom of most SLAC pages), and include the nature of your problem, the webpage where you encountered it, and your contact information.