508 Wizard™ Product Suite

AccessABILITY  has developed a series of products to help organizations that need to validate that their software programs adhere to the Section 508 requirements.  A suite of products is provided to help identify and correct the Section 508 Accessibility errors within desktop and client/server software programs.  With our Built In ....Not Added On approach, these products become even more valuable to your software staff, as the 508 Wizard™ and its built in accessibility help system, instructs them to create software that is inherently Section 508 compliant the first time. Specific products are provided for each of the leading software application development technologies.

Benefits
The suite of 508 Wizard™ products and services helps organizations become proactively compliant as is relates to Section 508 activities.

	Automatically and quickly scans the source code of the identified software application for all of the 1194.21 accessibility violations.
	Automatically and quickly analyzes software programs to assess their Section 508 compliancy, giving management an overall assessment of compliance.
	Provides an objective pass/fail rating for software programs, minimizing time-consuming subjective analysis activities by Section 508 compliance staff.
	Automates major portions of the testing process saving the time of development staff, quality assurance staff, Section 508 auditors/consultants, and management.
	Presents detailed information to software development staff identifying the locations of accessibility violations within software programs saving their time
	Includes best practice recommendations for correcting Section 508 violations enabling software development staff to correct the problems in the best manner
	Enables periodic Section 508 audits of software programs to be easily performed allowing organizations to comply with the regulation for on-going verification.

508 Wizard™ is beneficial for remediation of existing software programs and is beneficial for more easily developing new programs that are mandated to be Section 508 compliant.  This product is also beneficial for performing periodic audits on software programs to ensure that they continue to meet these accessibility regulations.

Other Section 508 tools work by testing software after it has been developed. This “added on” testing process extends the software delivery cycle and leads to multiple “develop and test” cycles. In contrast, the 508 Wizard™ educates your software development staff to “build in” the proper accessibility features the first time. This greatly reduces the testing time and costs, and helps to create more accessible software. Also, other Section 508 tools require the software programs to be used in order to evaluate its accessibility. This costly and labor intensive approach is not as comprehensive as our patent-pending approach of scanning the actual source code of the software. Our exclusive approach to pin-pointing the location of accessibility problems makes the 508 Wizard™ the development tool of choice for accessibility efforts for computer programs.