This is a common problem, and exemplifies Jon Gunderson's mantra: it's 
better to have accessibility designed in rather than added on.  It can 
be a significant challenge, depending on how poorly designed the 
current web pages are.

As you say, the home page and immediate links should be done 
immediately.  I'd suggest looking at the pages that are most important 
to the students be next.  There are probably some pages that are rarely 
visited.

One guideline might be this: the ADA doesn't say that *everything* must 
be accessible, it says that all *services* must be accessible.  So, if 
there is information that is on the website that is not easily 
accessible to the students in some other way, that *must* be accessible 
now.

Denis Anson

On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 03:26 AM, 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
>