W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Home Page

Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (coataccess.org)

• Federal Accessibility Law: Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998, Section 508
• Federal Access Board Web & Technology Access Decision, Final Rules, 36 CFR Part 1194, (December 21, 2000), effective February 20, 2001.
• Section 508 Rules - 37 CFR Part 1194 (12/21/00)
• Federal 508 Web Site - http://www.section508.gov/
• Federal Accessibility "Guide Book:" This link gives you the Federal manual on how to build accessible U.S. government web pages -- what is permitted, how to build your pages, and what is prohibited.
• 21st Century Communications & Accessibility Act, October 8, 2010
• Maryland Accessibility - 508 Rules and Laws.
• Other States adopting 508 web standards.
• Montgomery College standards
• Montgomery College Guidelines
• Other Applicable Laws and Rules - U.S. Constitution
• FCC can't regulate Internet Broadband under its "ancillary power" jurisdiction. First Amendment issues not reached in 3-0 D.C. Federal Circuit Court ruling. (April 2010).
• Existing Laws on Accessible Technology - http://www.coataccess.org/node/4
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Developed by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).  Not the law of the land in the United States. The W3C is a world-wide group of committees which works on voluntary web "standards:"

"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops standards to ensure the long-term growth of the web." 
http://www.w3.org