Electronic Publications & Forms
This section collects data from management and staff who have responsibility for creating electronic publications and forms. Publications may be manuals, hand books, guides, or other types of information available to agency staff to facilitate daily job requirements. Indicate the document formats used for your publications. Check all that apply
HTML PDF MS Word Other (Edit Box)
Indicate your agency’s level of compliance with Section 508 Web Accessibility Standards. Web pages include a text equivalent for every non-text element. All Most Some Don’t Know Comments: Edit box.
Meaningful web page images have alt description All Most Some Don’t Know Comments: Edit box.
Complex graphics are accompanied by detailed descriptions All Most Some Don’t Know Comments: Edit box.
Alt descriptions describe the purpose of objects All Most Some Don’t Know Comments: Edit box.
Alt descriptions used as descriptive links All Most Some Don’t Know Comments: Edit box.
Decorative graphics have empty descriptions All Most Some Don’t Know Comments: Edit box.
Indicate the number of forms your agency publishes electronically? Edit Box or; Less than 100 100 – 200 200 – 400 400 – 600 More than 600 Do you manually test all your forms for accessibility with industry leading assistive technology?
o Yes
o No o Don’t know
Describe Testing Methods. Edit Box Do all your forms meet Section 508 compliance standards?
o Yes o No o Don’t know
How many forms are available to the public on your agencies Internet Web site? Edit Box How many of the externally posted forms are required to be completed by the public for access to your agencies services and programs? Edit Box Indicate the formats used for forms.
HTML PDF MS Word Other (Edit Box)
How are your web delivered PDF files created? (MATRIX – all, most, some, none, unknown) by scanning printed documents into PDF with optical character recognition software (OCR). the files were created by using the Save As PDF function in a word processor. by printing through the Adobe distiller software in a word processor to a PDF format. by using PDF development tools (Adobe Acrobat Standard/Professional, Adobe Indesign, etc.) Of the electronic forms designed for online completion, does each form permit users of assistive technology to access the information, All Most Some access field elements, All Most Some None None
enable functionality required for completion and submission of the form including all directions and cues? All Most Some None