EPerformance 4.31 is close, there are multiple alterations in the pipeline for it. It’s coming out clean in the tools anyway… unfortunately it took reporting lots of issues with 4.3.0.7…
But yes, compliance actually takes effort and thought about what you are doing when you are designing a web based application.
On the other hand, I do not have any real problems with this site. And when I had a problem with baenebooks.com I didn’t file a lawsuit, I wrote them an email and explained the problems I was having and expressed a willingness to talk with them about ways of maybe fixing the issues. After all, I wanted a site that worked, not a payday. I have never had a webmaster for a site tell me “we don’t want your kind around here, go away” or even the inaction equivilant… I guess it’s just how you express yourself and how you approach the problem, and mainly what you hope to “take away”.

I don’t know about Bob or CC, but I’m actually pretty well versed with the section 508 stuff. I’m not sure I’d call myself an expert, but I do deal with it as part of my job, having a couple contracts with strong section 508 focuses (because the contracting officer has a been in their bonnet about it), and have worked with a number of actual experts on accessibility challenges, both internally and external consultants. The universal consensus, from everyone I’ve worked with that deals with section 508 professionally, is that there simply isn’t such a thing as being “fully compliant.” You can be compliant to varying degrees, but the very nature of the thing, as it currently stands, makes it impossible to be “completely” compliant.

I understand that this is the Internet, and I haven’t provided proof beyond my simple assertions, but I’m not exactly willing to say who I work for or what agencies we have contracts with. So this may not be persuasive. Oh well.

Pages with links to services, meetings, agendas, etc all disappeared until the governments can hire people that know what the regulations are (if such a person exists.)

It is not merely that the lawsuits are not good faith, it is that they are demanding the impossible. The web itself can never be accessible to the blind. Never.

I have a very small business under a LLC with a small website. When setting up my website I put a text caption on every image. Is that enough? Did I miss one? I’m trying to sell software. The last thing I want to do is spend thousands of dollars settling or tens of thousands of dollars contesting a lawsuit.

Unfortunately suing small businesses appears to be profitable for lawyers.

Unfortunately, they don’t exist – and everyone knows it.