Jack,
I think the number one issue is to get into place accessible design
practices for the next generation web resources.  It is alot easier to
build in accessibility features at the design stage of web resources than
trying to fix them after they have been designed.  I would make that the
number onw priority!

After you know what you want as design practices then you can go back and
see if it worth trying to repair existing resources or just totally
redesign them.  Most times repairing existing web pages to meet
accessibility guidelines takes more work than just redesigning the
resources using your accessible design practices.

Repairing web resources to meet 508 or some other guidelines make make the
pages technically accessible, but often functionally inaccessible to
people with disabilities.

Jon

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Jack Clevenger wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Our college's teaching and technology just had a meeting
> today with its major focus and agenda being web site
> accessibility.  The major question came up for me to ask
> the experts from this listserv as follows:
>
> Given that each of our Maricopa community colleges have
> hundreds, if not thousands, of web pages (including
> courses on the web.    This all comes after several
> years of development and .....recently the staff and
> faculty are now realizing the responsibility to have the
> web sites/pages be ADA/508 compliant.
>
> The question is this:   Iin what order of the web
> sites/pages do we need to ensure are accessible.  We
> know that we definitely need to have the home page be
> 508 compliant along with its links.
>
> Please comment and advise.  Thank you in advance for
> taking the time to submit your replies to the above
> question.
>
> Jack Clevenger, Coordinator
> Disability Resources and Services
> Mesa Community College
> Mesa, Arizona
>