Title: Accessibility AAA
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Accessibility AAA

 *  [supermum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supermum/)
 * (@supermum)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-aaa/)
 * I am new to wordpress and am looking at finding a cms that can conform to bobby
   aaa. does this application achieve this with minimal effort? thanks to anyone
   who can help me out.

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-aaa/#post-174378)
 * Not to sound sarcastic, but I’ve never found making a site that reached the Bobby
   AAA approval rating to involve minimal effort at getting it there. But theoretically?
   I can imagine a WP site set up to accomplish this.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-aaa/#post-174391)
 * Don’t shoot for AAA. It’s nearly impossible. Go for 508 instead.
 *  Thread Starter [supermum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supermum/)
 * (@supermum)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-aaa/#post-174401)
 * Is 508 Bobby A or Bobby AA? Thanks
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-aaa/#post-174477)
 * The 508 and Bobby ratings are different types of “approval”, which is why you
   find a separate scan and/or ratings block for 508 issues.
 * Let me also note for others that accessibility scanners like Bobby provide guidelines,
   and should be seen as such when following their recommendations. It’s not the
   same as when scanning for XHTML or CSS validation. In the end a site’s accessibility
   is in the hands of its designer.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-aaa/#post-174511)
 * To check 508 with Bobby, go here: [http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp](http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp)
   and click the radial button that says “U.S. Section 508 Guidelines”. 508 is not
   Bobby A, it’s entirely different.
 *  [PaulaO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/holyroller/)
 * (@holyroller)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accessibility-aaa/#post-175085)
 * Section 508 is a federal law that originally set guidelines just for federal 
   websites. However, since it is more attainable than the Website Accessibility
   Initiative (WAI), which is the A, AA, and AAA ratings.
 * The WAI is a good standard, but a difficult standard to live up to. It is not
   just to make a website accessible for all sorts of people with disabilities, 
   but also to old browsers, different browsers, different languages, etc. If it
   is the Bobby logo you want, aim for A and hope for AA. Even only a few of my 
   pages are AAA approved.
 * The Section 508 is a more realistic goal. The main thing, if you are doing this
   for people who are blind, is if the tab button jumps from link to link, it is
   accessible at the lowest level. BUT, it is how and what order it jumps that can
   make a difference. It jumps horizontally, which can make table layout tricky.
 * Some software that I found to be a valuable tool is A-Prompt. It not only evaluates
   your site, but helps you to fix it. The vast majority of people can’t follow 
   along with what Bobby has to say but there are other evaluation software and 
   sites that are more user friendly.
 * [http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/](http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/)
    [http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources/#er](http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources/#er)(
   resources for other evaluation software)
 * [http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/508home.html](http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/508home.html)
   
   [http://www.section508.gov/](http://www.section508.gov/) [http://www.icanonline.net/sitemap.cfm](http://www.icanonline.net/sitemap.cfm)(
   scroll way down to Technology>Section 508)
 * [http://www.access-board.gov/indexes/accessindex.htm](http://www.access-board.gov/indexes/accessindex.htm)
 * [http://www.w3.org/WAI/](http://www.w3.org/WAI/)

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