Section 508 is a part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which requires that electronic and information technology developed, procured, maintained, or used by the Federal government be accessible to people with disabilities. On August 7, 1998, the President signed into law the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, which includes the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998. Section 508 was originally added to the Rehabilitation Act in 1986; the 1998 amendments significantly expand and strengthen the technology access requirements in Section 508.
The 1986 version of Section 508 established non-binding guidelines for technology accessibility, while the 1998 version creates binding, enforceable standards and will incorporate these standards into Federal procurement regulations. Federal agencies will use these standards in all their electronic and information technology acquisitions. Consistent government-wide standards will make it easier for Federal agencies to meet their existing obligations to make their technology systems accessible to people with disabilities, and will promote competition in the technology industry by clarifying the Federal market's requirement for accessibility in products intended for general use. The new version of Section 508 also establishes a complaint procedure and reporting requirements, which further strengthen the law.
Section 508 applies to Federal departments and agencies.
No, it does not regulate the private sector and does not apply to recipients of Federal funds.
Section 508 requires that when Federal agencies develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology, they must ensure that it is accessible to people with disabilities, unless it would pose an undue burden to do so. Federal employees and members of the public who have disabilities must have access to and use of information and services that is comparable to the access and use available to non-disabled Federal employees and members of the public.
New standards have been established to help Federal agencies determine whether or not a technology product or system is accessible. Federal agencies must comply with these technology accessibility standards for all electronic and information technology acquired on or after six months from the date the Access Board issued its final standards (December 21, 2000). Technology developed or acquired for a Federal agency by a contractor must also comply with the standards. If a Federal agency determines that it would pose an undue burden to comply with the standards, it must still provide information and data to individuals with disabilities through an alternative means of access that can be used by the individuals.
The Board was required to issue standards that define which electronic and information technology is covered by Section 508, and describe what is meant by `accessible technology' by setting forth the technical and functional performance criteria necessary to implement the accessibility requirements. The Board was required to consult with the Departments of Education, Commerce, and Defense, the General Services Administration, the Federal Communications Commission, the electronic and information technology industry, and disability organizations in developing its standards. The Access Board created an Electronic and Information Technology Access Advisory Committee (EITAAC) to advise it on the standards. The Committee's final report was delivered to the Board on May 11, 1999. On March 31, 2000, the Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking based on the Committee's recommendations.
Agencies must evaluate their current electronic and information technology systems for accessibility to individuals with disabilities, and submit a report to the Attorney General containing the results of the evaluation.
The Attorney General must submit a report to the President on the extent to which the electronic and information technology of the Federal Government is accessible to individuals with disabilities. The Department of Justice issued its report April 19, 2000. In addition, every two years thereafter the Attorney General must report to the President and the Congress on Federal agency compliance with the requirements of the law, and on any actions on individual complaints.
The General Services Administration and the Access Board will provide technical assistance on the requirements of Section 508. Agencies and individuals may also seek information from the many public, non-profit, educational, or private institutions and organizations that specialize in making technology accessible to people with disabilities. These organizations, along with companies in the electronic and information technology industry, can assist agencies in identifying innovative technology or in developing accessible technology solutions.
A Federal agency does not have to comply with the technology accessibility standards if it would impose an undue burden to do so. This is consistent with language used in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other civil rights legislation, where the term `undue burden' has been defined as "significant difficulty or expense." However, the agency must explain why meeting the standards would pose an undue burden for a given procurement action, and must still provide people with disabilities access to the information or data that is affected.
Section 508 contains a limited exemption for national security systems as defined by the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. These are systems used for military command, weaponry, intelligence, and cryptologic activities. The exemption does not apply to routine business and administrative systems used for other defense-related purposes or by defense agencies or personnel.
Because the Section 508 standards will be incorporated into the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), agencies' procurement of accessible technology will be subject to the same stringent compliance and enforcement mechanisms as other parts of the FAR.
There is an administrative complaint process which becomes effective six months after the Board issued its final standards. It enables any individual with a disability to file a complaint alleging that a Federal department or agency has not complied with the accessible technology standards in a procurement made after that date. The complaint process is the same as that used for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, for complaints alleging discrimination on the basis of disability in Federally-conducted programs or activities. It provides injunctive relief and attorney's fees to the prevailing party, but does not include compensatory or punitive damages.
The Access Board defined "electronic and information technology" consistent with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. That Act defines "information technology" to include "any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information." It includes computer hardware, software, networks, and peripherals as well as many electronic and communications devices commonly used in offices.
Yes. Federal agencies which provide information to the public or to their employees through Web sites must ensure that such sites are available to all persons with internet or intranet access, including persons with disabilities.
No. Section 508 does not apply to a private sector Web site unless such site is provided under contract to a covered entity. For example, a Federal agency might contract with a consulting firm to collect and analyze some demographic data and make that information available to the public on a Web site. In that case, the Web site or portion devoted to fulfilling the contractual obligation would be subject to Section 508. The firm's general Web site, or the portion not devoted to the contracted study, would not be subject to Section 508.
Does this mean Web sites can't have graphics?
Not at all. Actually, designing an accessible Web site is not as difficult as most people believe. Often it is a matter of identifying graphics, elements, frames, etc. For example, HTML code already provides the "Alt Text" tag for graphics which some designers simply forget or ignore.
On the contrary, accessible sites have several advantages. For one thing, some people turn off graphics so sites will load faster. Without "alt" tags, graphics-intense sites may be unusable. Also, with the growth of PDAs, and even Web site content delivered to cell phones, having text-based content is becoming more important. Because the screens on such devices are so small, graphics will probably never be a viable option. So the busy executive, waiting in an airport, who wants to check her stock portfolio on her cell phone isn't going to turn to the graphics-only site. Furthermore, with the growth of voice technology the harried commuter can have the headlines from his favorite news site read to him, but only if there is a text-based content. Finally, if a digitized video has synchronized captions, the text can be searched.
The standards developed by the Access Board explain the detailed technical and functional performance criteria that will determine whether a technology product or system is `accessible.'
In general, an information technology system is accessible to people with disabilities if it can be used in a variety of ways that do not depend on a single sense or ability. For example, a system that provides output only in audio format would not be accessible to people with hearing impairments, and a system that requires mouse actions to navigate would not be accessible to people who cannot use a mouse because of a dexterity or visual impairment. Section 508 focuses on the overall accessibility of electronic and information technology systems, not on providing accommodations at individual worksites. Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act requires Federal agencies to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities; it generally covers individual worksites but not overall technology systems. Even with an accessible system, individuals with disabilities may still need specific accessibility-related software or peripheral devices as an accommodation to be able to use it. For example, in order to use an accessible word-processing program, a person who is blind may need add-on software that reads text aloud; if the word-processing program could not be made compatible with a screen-reading program, it might not be accessible.
Section 508 in no way replaces or otherwise limits the rights or remedies available under any other existing Federal law that protects the rights of people with disabilities. As part of the Rehabilitation Act, it clarifies and strengthens the Federal government's existing obligation to ensure that technology is accessible to people with disabilities.
XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. It is designed to carry data and not only display data. Anyone can defines his own tags to code the xml file. All tags are self-descriptive and easy to use. The information converted in xml format is identify more accurate, flexible, and adaptable way. We can convert data from various formats like hard source, pdf, tiff, jpg etc. to xml format.
In most of cases we expect DTD/Schema to be provided by client because to prepare DTD/Schema file needs analysis of huge data and expected structure of data to fix all possible variant in source.
We are since 2012 in this conversion services and we had converted thousands of pages providing this kind of services to our clients.
We offer xml services as well as other conversions like HTML, PDF, TXT, XLS etc. We have total 8 years’ experience in data conversion fields.
We are providing xml conversion services since 2012. We are able to provide our services in combination of various languages like English, Greek, Latin, German, Hebrew etc.
Various kinds of software are available in market to handle xml conversions. Altona is one of the popular software provides many features to convert xml document. Its provides inbuilt parser to validate xml document with corresponding DTD/Schema file. Contact us to get a free quote and save up to50% to 70% on your projects!!
Digital PDF Solutions is an ebook creation and conversion company with over 1 years of experience in the digital publishing industry. We have served authors and publishers, to achieve their goal and have provided ebook in formats like epub, fixed layout epub, kindle, Mob pocket, Smash words and to all format which an ebook reader can be compatible of.
If we are at an initial testing phase or under a free trial, documents can be sent to us via email. If they are large in number or big in size, we will create a secure FTP account to which you can upload documents and images for us to receive and review. Once we have converted the documents, they will be delivered to you via the same FTP account.
Yes we do, we can also sign an NDA (non-disclosure) agreement, prior to start of project or trial.
Yes, we do offer free trial for all ebook conversion services. The reason for undergoing a free trial is to get a better view of quality services we offer before we turn into a full agreed contract
A copy of work will be kept on the FTP server accessible to you only. It can be downloaded as many times and will stay there until you confirm us to remove it from there.
Basic ebook formats are .epub and .mobi so you will receive these formats for final converted book. Please note, cost for conversion may rise if additional ebook formats are required.
Once we have an ongoing project, a project manager will be in touch with you where he/she will be able to provide you with daily updates, status and progress on the project.
That depends upon your project size and how quick turn-around time is required. If project is big in size, we can hire extra resources to meet your requirements.
Yes, we can Cut >> Scan >> OCR >> data entry >> proof read your hard copy of book and convert it to a desired ebook format.
Once quote is approved, you will be notified about the start and end time of the project. Usually we start the project on the same day it’s approved! If not the very next day it gets started.
If the conversion text contains foreign languages with special characters which needs special attention, then yes, the cost might differ.
Yes, all our output files are verified via IDPF epub validator.
Our conversion rates are very minimal, even you will be amazed on how affordable can it be. We don’t use any tool or script to convert your books, but our ebook architects convert hand-code the book manually and they are scripted as per your requirements. We just charge for the time spent behind converting the book.
We accept payment by Credit and Debit Cards, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Direct transfers to Bank account.
PDF Conversion is a service that provides an easy way to convert Microsoft Word and any files in a few other formats to PDF files.
PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format designed to solve the problem of transporting a file from one software application to another. Your PDF document will look the way you want it to - regardless of the type of computer or operating system the person you're sharing it with has installed. In addition, PDF files are very useful when you don't want the person you're sharing with to change the contents of your document (such as, when it's an invoice, receipt, or other legal document).
PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format designed to solve the problem of transporting a file from one software application to another. Your PDF document will look the way you want it to - regardless of the type of computer or operating system the person you're sharing it with has installed. In addition, PDF files are very useful when you don't want the person you're sharing with to change the contents of your document (such as, when it's an invoice, receipt, or other legal document).
We keep the PDF file on our system for a few days so that you can pick it up at your convenience, but after that, we completely delete your document from our system. We absolutely respect your privacy - we do not even look at your documents unless you give us explicit permission to do so.
Your document gets process by our conversion team as soon as you submit it, and the conversion process usually starts immediately.
When the conversion is finished, you get final files as a result. Or, if something went wrong (for example, if the input document is password-protected, and we can't open it), our project management team will let you know about the problem.
The PDF conversion supports the standard fonts that come shipped with Word (Arial, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Century Gothic, Comic Sans MS, Courier, Courier New, Garamond, Impact, Marlette, Monotype Corsiva, Symbol, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Webdings, Wingding’s). If you make use of a font the system doesn't yet support, it will either substitute a similar font (if it can).
If you want to make sure your document gets converted with all its fonts intact, you should do what's known as "embedding the fonts you use into your document" before submitting your document to our services. Exact details of how to do this depends on your version of Word, but the general idea is to:
Then submit the doc to us.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
A few of our clients have this problem. Sometimes it is caused by differing versions of Word being used, but most often is either because the fonts we're using don't match yours in all particulars, or because we don't have a font you're using. In the latter case, we sometimes substitute another font that's similar but not identical to the one you've used - and if the substituted font is bigger or smaller, the effect can sometimes be enough to cause a page to break a line away from where you thought it would.
We have an experience of 9+ years in this services. We manage both long-term and short-term projects in HTML data conversion.
We have specialized HTML conversion tools that recognize file structure, layout, titles, headings, tables, bulleted and numbered lists, formatting features, etc. of any data format. It becomes easier and faster for us to convert any data format to HTML, including files with graphics and special effects.
We can certainly manage it. The turnaround and pricing can be decided after a review of your exact requirements. We work on similar projects frequently.
The rates depend on a number of factors such as the type of the project (ongoing or short-term), volume, turnaround, expertise required and technology used. In any case, your comparative advantages on costs are guaranteed.
If you would like to know more, Contact us with your queries. We would be pleased to answer your questions.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that enables you to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or images captured by a digital camera into editable and searchable data. OCR technology has made a significant impact on the way information is stored, shared and edited. Prior to optical character recognition, if someone wanted to turn a book into a word processing file, each page would have to be retyped word for word.
An optical scanner scans the text on a page, then breaks the fonts down into a series of dots called a bit map. The OCR software can read most common fonts and distinguish where lines start and stop. This bit map is then translated into computer text.
We ensure that all work is carried out to the highest standard, there is an element of risk of damage to the original item due to the permanent nature of the lamination process.
Please understand that all lamination is done at the client's own risk. We take no responsibility for any damage to documents as a result of laminating.
OCR uses Optical Character Recognition technology, which recognizes text from pictures and images, and the Recognizable Rate is depends on the file text fonts, background and a number of factors. So OCR cannot recognize text 100% correct, but we are still working on improving the program.
OCR can only recognize text from PDF/Scanned files, images and graphics will be recognized as text too, so you might get the unknown characters. You can delete unknown characters in Text Editor.
If you click the FILE tab at the top left of the Microsoft Word window, you will find the main Word functions, such as: New, Save, Save As, Open, Close, and Print.
Yes. Above the File tab is the Quick Access Toolbar. You can customize this toolbar to display the shortcuts that you most frequently use from the list provided. You can customize this toolbar to display the shortcuts that you most frequently use from the list provided. If you click on the small down arrow on the edge of the toolbar, a list of the most common shortcuts are displayed. You can choose shortcuts from this list or if you want a more in-depth selection, click on the MORE COMMANDS option. You can then add more shortcuts from the window that pops up.
The Ribbon runs along the top of the application window and is the replacement for the menus and toolbars that were commonplace in previous versions of Microsoft Word. The Ribbon has several tabs and each tab has its own groups of commands. The Home tab is where the most common Word formatting takes place, such as changing fonts, paragraph alignment, and line spacing. But if, for example, you wanted to insert a graphic or table into your document, you would click on the INSERT tab.
To insert a table into your document, navigate to the part of the document where you want the table to appear. Once there, click on the INSERT tab on the Ribbon. Then, click the TABLE button. A drop-down menu will extend that will let you insert an on-the-fly table (where you highlight the grid on the menu with the number of rows/columns that you require), a custom table (where you choose the Insert Table option), or a quick table (where you select a table template from the Quick Table menu).
Click on the INSERT tab on the Ribbon. In the Header & Footer command group, click on the PAGE NUMBER button. From the drop-down menu that extends, you can choose where you want the page numbers to display on the page and whether you want them to be centered or aligned left or right. You may also choose different numbering formats, such as Roman numerals, by clicking on the FORMAT PAGE NUMBERS option.
Files with a .docx extension have been created in Microsoft Word 2007 or a later version. In order to view and edit these files, you need to install either Microsoft Office 2007 or higher, or the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. You can download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack free of charge from the Microsoft Download Center at www.microsoft.com
Yes. Click on the the FILE tab at the top left of Microsoft Word. Then, click on the little arrow to the right of Save As. In the Save as type list, if you see a PDF option, then your computer already has the add-in for this function and you can save your file as a PDF by selecting that option. If you see a Find add-ins for other file formats option, then click on that as it means that you need to install the add-in. Note: You will need Internet access as a download is required. Follow the on-screen instructions to download and install the add-in. Once this has been completed, you will be able to save in PDF format.
The default font in Word 2010 is Calibri and the default font size is 11 point. To change the default font, click the FONT dialog box launcher on the Font group under the Home tab. Then, click the FONT tab within the dialog box. Select the font options that you want to apply to the default font. Click the DEFAULT button at the bottom of the dialog box, and then click YES. The next time you open a new document in Word 2010, you will see your changes.
Data stored in paper is cumbersome to make use of and has slower retrieval rate. Data entry, data processing and data conversion help in getting over our dependence on paper for data storage. The monetary and temporal savings accrued due to these services is indeed noteworthy.
What is outsourcing? Why is it better to outsource ones data entry/data processing/data conversion processes?Outsourcing is the concept or the idea of transferring internal company function performance to external firms, especially those that operate from countries that offer a reasonable price advantage for the quality offered.
The benefits of outsourcing are many, as listed below:Once you have made an inquiry, you will be responded to immediately by our sales team. We shall send you a detailed profile of your project as understood by us, a price estimate and other related technical specifics.
What is the process you follow as a part of your post-sales efforts?On order confirmation, we carve out the scope of the task, based on consultation with the clients. This scope is nothing but the composite task definition, based on its technical and functional specifications. We also provide you with the time frame for completion of task and the event points in the process map we have charted out.
How does the client keep track of the progress of his/her project?The project, after confirmation, comes under the complete purview of the Project Manager. He/She is available at all times for all your queries and information updates about your project. Moreover, we have a 24 hour helpline to keep you in the loop regarding the development on your project. We will have a progress report sent to you on a weekly or biweekly.
What are the communication means that you are accessible from?We can be contacted through phone, fax, email and post.
What is the average turnaround time for projects?We have flexible turnaround time schemes that are authored for client benefits. For work involving high volumes, there is a need for a minimum time for launching the task. By default, the tasks are finished as quickly as possible as and usually faster than the average industry timeframes.
What is done with the documents and data sources after the service provider has finished working on them?That depends on what the client wants to be done about it while the associated documents stay with us safely until such guidance arrives from the client’s side.
Any price difference between data conversion from original image and the same image that’s emailed in an electronic format?No, there is no price difference.
Any price difference between data entry of alphabetic and numeric characters?No, there is no price difference.
Do you have any quality control measures to minimize errors?Yes, we have strict quality control measures in place.
Do you offer free trial?Yes, it is offered as one of the ways by which the client can estimate our quality.
Do you have a strong data security policy in place?Yes. Our data security policy is impregnable to any data security attacks.