Section 508
Regulation
United States
· 1998
Section 508 requires US federal agencies — and, through procurement rules and state adoptions, the institutions that take federal funds — to make information and communications technology accessible to people with disabilities. The Revised 508 Standards adopt WCAG Level AA as the technical requirement.
Sectoral regime. It binds the industries below; companies outside them
generally fall outside it.
Regions
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.
Implemented by these standards
A regulation is the law; a standard is the machine-readable contract that satisfies it. Almost every regime in this catalog restricts an interface rather than requiring one — where a standard exists, it is the part a provider can actually publish.