[Missouri-l] Bobby Approved Website

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Bobby Approved Accessible
Web Sites Made Easy To Design
Bobby approved designs power a practical, pragmatic approach to web  
accessibility. And accessible web site design enhances Internet business website  
performance. 
Being "Bobby Approved" supports the mission of Accessible.Org, which is to  
make _accessible web designs_ 
(http://www.accessible.org/accessible-web-designs.html)  for nonprofits, small businesses  and government departments in 
the most practical and pragmatic ways  possible, such that they are able to 
display a Bobby approval symbol. 
This implies a harmonious blending of the objectives of the site owner with 
 the recommendations of the _Web Content Accessibility Guidelines_ 
(http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/)  of the _Web Accessibility  
Initiative_ (http://www.w3.org/WAI/)  and of the _U.S. Section 508 Standards_ 
(http://www.accessible.org/section-508-compliance.html)  for accessibility 
adopted by  the _Architectural and  Transportation Barriers Compliance Board_ 
(http://www.access-board.gov/)  (Access Board) of the U.S.  Federal 
government. 
For conceptual purposes, we've split website accessibility issues into two  
main streams: 
    1.  _disability-related_ 
(http://www.accessible.org/people-with-disabilities.html)  - making web sites or anything  having to do with the Internet 
as accessible as possible for _people with disabilities_ 
(http://www.accessible.org/people-with-disabilities.html)  
    2.  _non-disability-related_ 
(http://www.accessible.org/browser-compatibility.html)  - making web sites viewable by  as many browsers (and browser 
settings) as possible, in other words assuring  _browser compatibility_ 
(http://www.accessible.org/browser-compatibility.html) 
A Short Bobby History
Bobby is the name CAST gave to the free public service it  launched in 1996 
to automatically analyze accessibility features of web sites.  It cleverly 
capitalized on the iconic British Bobby policeman and became an  instant 
hit. 
In addition to the automated analysis, it also offered easy-to-follow  
suggestions for the manual interpretaton of the extensive WAI guidelines, for  
which an automated check is not so practical. 
For nearly 10 years, Bobby helped make the World Wide Web more accessible 
to  individuals with disabilities. Novice and professional web designers 
alike  analyzed and made improvements to millions of Web pages. 
This work won CAST numerous awards and international recognition. CAST no  
longer supports the Bobby accessiblity testing software, and in fact, sold 
the  application to Watchfire in 2004. 
Watchfire further developed Bobby and included it as the Accessibility 
Module  of its Watchfire® WebXM™ application. WebXM™ was designed to help the 
online  business better manage its brand by complying with accessibility 
guidelines and  best practices. 
With Watchfire's acquisition of Bobby in 2004 and then the later 
acquisition  of Watchfire by IBM in 2007, Bobby ceased to be available as a free 
service or  standalone product. 
However, as a testimony to the true value of Bobby, it's now one of the 
tests  included in IBM's Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition software, 
the  enterprise application for testing websites. 
This Site Is Bobby Approved
Priority 1, 2 and 3 issues do not apply to pages on this  site, thus 
qualifying it to be AAA Bobby Approved and entitled to use the AAA  Bobby Approval 
icon. Bobby's accessibility analysis is an implementation of the  May 5, 
1999 version of the _Web Content Accessibility Guidelines_ 
(http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/)  of the _Web Accessibility  Initiative_ 
(http://www.w3.org/WAI/) . 
Bobby analyzes Web pages in accordance with these guidelines and, where  
possible, automatically checks guidelines. There are a variety of important  
accessibility guidelines that Bobby, like any other accessibility tool, 
cannot  check automatically. 
For example, the requirement for text transcriptions for audio files to 
help  people who are deaf requires you to manually look at the Web pages to 
confirm  that the transcripts exist. 
Section 508 issues do not apply to pages on this site, thus qualifying it 
to  be Section 508 Bobby Approved and entitled to use the Section 508 Bobby 
Approval  icon. 
Bobby's Section 508 accessibility analysis is an implementation of the 
_U.S. Section 508 Standards_ 
(http://www.accessible.org/section-508-compliance.html)  for accessibility adopted by  the _Architectural and  Transportation 
Barriers Compliance Board_ (http://www.access-board.gov/)  (Access Board) of 
the U.S.  Federal government. 
Accessible Website Design Services
We offer practical and pragmatic accessibility-related resources for  
nonprofit and small business website designs in the form of advice, products and  
services from our own experience, as well as a variety of other sources. 
Our  services generally consist of: 
    *   site tune-up for accessibility  
    *   accessible website designs and development  
    *   site promotion geared to small business accessibility 

 (http://www.accessible.org/contact-us.html) 
_Let us make your web site  affordably accessible with our
practical and pragmatic approach to  accessibility._ 
(http://www.accessible.org/contact-us.html)  
We also provide resources for small businesses and nonprofits seeking  
government aid in the form of _government grants and loans_ 
(http://www.accessible.org/disability-grants.html)  to help finance accessible  website designs. 
Appearance of a resource on this site does not imply  endorsement by 
Accessible.Org. 
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