Contract personnel were standing by to assist in 508 compliance, she added. In his memo, McKay instructed Web content managers to review 31,000 GSA Web pages and eliminate those that are outdated or duplicated. Although McKay s memo discussed Section 508 compliance, it focused on GSA s plans to move the contents of about 70 Web sites into a GSA Web portal. In a telephone interview April 12, McKay said GSA wants to get rid of old and redundant files so it does not have to transfer them to the portal. McKay said he expects about 20,000 of the pages to be purged.
People create new content and update pages, and they save the old pages.
They re simply there as a safety net. They have accumulated over time. The accumulation includes such items as papers about best practices that are no longer practiced and slide presentations on policies that have since been changed. Valuable information won t vanish during the housecleaning or the transfer, McKay promised. Managers who request them will be provided with CD-ROM copies of all pages and files they delete from Web servers.