Services
Bleeding Edge Books, a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, gives grass roots assistance to Agencies providing Rehabilitation Act Section 508 compliant documents, and trains Agency writers in Section 508 compliant document techniques for Microsoft 365 and Adobe.
· Business model: most Technical Writers sub- contract with large primary document creators with layers of org. costs. Our Solely owned company uses a leaner budget model
· Focus: Work directly with agency internal organizations preparing specific large documents for public review or training their internal writers to create efficient large documents
· Clients: Agencies needing Section 508 compliant electronic documents for public review; light technical editing; Tech writing and document control for environmental, science, and other specialists to produce large complex Environmental Assessment/Environmental Impact Statements
· Disaster Assistance: Certified to deploy as CISM representative to disaster areas
· Legal: Section 508 requires that all ICT be accessible to individuals with disabilities, whether government employees or members of the public, as for those without recognized disabilities.
All federal employees creating, reviewing and revising content are responsible for making sure the content they produce is accessible to those with disabilities. Unfortunately, while several thousand lawsuits are filed at multiple levels of government each year for failure to make ICT accessible, there has been a shortfall in Section 508 accessibility training at the user level or formalized attention being paid to the requirement since it became law in 1998.
In 2018, lawsuits began being filed at about a 15% increase per year. In 2023, there were reportedly more than 4,000 lawsuits filed at either the federal or state level. This type of lawsuit has been filed against federal and state government websites for several years. 2021 through 2023 have averaged about 10 lawsuits filed per day against federal and state agencies
(see
https://www.section508.gov/manage/benefits-of-accessibility/, and