Section 508 is part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Section 508 was amended in 1998 to strengthen the requirement for Federal agencies' electronic and information technology to be accessible to people with disabilities, including employees and members of the public.

If you have questions on what Section 508 means to you as a Government employee, the NOAA Section 508 website can assist you in finding out more about the Law and how it affects you as a purchaser, user and developer of Information Technology Products and Services.

For information on what your servicing procurement office needs to have from you when you process a purchase request (CD 435), visit the Acquisition Management Division's website. There you will find out what you need to do in addition to submitting a CD435 to a procurement office when you buy a NITES IT product or service.

Each NITES company has information on how its products and services meet Section 508 requirements for Government purchasing.
If you are looking for accessibility product information, including Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs), visit First Gov's accessibility search web site for the Information Technology product you need to know about


PC Products

DELL Marketing, L.P.
http://www.dell.com/us/en/fed/topics/segtopic_508_nav_110_508.htm
1194.26 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)
   Dell Client Systems (Dimension, Optiplex, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision)

GATEWAY, Inc.
http://www.nites.noaa.gov/docs/Gateway_section_508.pdf

Hewlett-Packard Co.
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/community/accessibility/prodserv/index.htm

Compaq
http://federal.compaq.com/accessibility/



Commercial Software Products

ADOBE Systems, Inc.
http://access.adobe.com/
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/Sect_5085.pdf

Corel Corp.
http://www.corel.com/Accessibility/

ESRI
http://www.esri.com/software/section508/index.html

ISIResearchSoft, Inc.
http://www.isinet.com/isi/about/508comp.html
http://www.nites.noaa.gov/docs/isi508.pdf

Macromedia, Inc.
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/

Microsoft, Corp.
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/microsoft/section508.htm
1194 Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs)
    MS Office 2000 (Professional and Standard)
    MS Office XP (Professional and Standard)
    Windows 2000 Professional
    Windows XP Professional


Network Associates Technology, Inc.

Oracle Corp.
http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Research Systems, Inc.
http://www.nites.noaa.gov/docs/idlsection508.pdf

Verity, Inc.

Winzip Computing, Inc.
http://www.nites.noaa.gov/docs/winzip508.pdf