Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised)
What is Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised)?
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (as revised in 2017 incorporating WCAG 2.0 Level AA) requires federal agencies to make their information and communications technology (ICT) accessible to people with disabilities. The revised standards (36 CFR Part 1194) incorporate WCAG 2.0 Level AA success criteria for web, software, and electronic documents, and provide functional performance criteria for hardware. It comprises 89 controls organised across 5 domains, and applies in the United States.
How Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised) maps to other frameworks
All 89 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 5 domains Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised) groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised)
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised). The number is how many Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised) controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
FERPA
2 shared controlsVirginia CDPA
2 shared controlsVietnam PDPD
2 shared controlsVermont Artificial Intelligence and Consumer Data Act (AICDA)
2 shared controlsUruguay DPL
2 shared controlsUK GDPR (UK General Data Protection Regulation)
2 shared controlsTurkey KVKK
2 shared controlsTexas Data Privacy Act
2 shared controlsWhere Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised) overlaps with the standards you already hold
Where to get trained on Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised)
2 courses in the catalogue cover Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised) directly. Each is self-paced, includes the downloadable toolkit and the implementation playbook, and carries a certificate of completion.
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What an auditor will ask you for
All 30 Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised) controls, each with what it requires, the artefacts an auditor will ask you for, and where it commonly fails. Free to read, nothing to fill in.
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Query Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised) programmatically
Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised), its 89 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised) API reference and MCP config →What Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised) requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one Section 508 - ICT Accessibility (Revised) control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- 402 Closed Functionality
- 407 Operable Parts
- 412 ICT with Two-Way Voice Communication
- 501-1 Scope of Hardware
- 502 Interoperability with Assistive Technology
- 502-2-1 User Control of Accessibility Features
- 504 Authoring Tools
- 603 Support Services
- 707 Real-Time Text Functionality
- E205-4 Electronic Content Accessibility
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