The theme of the 2005 CCCC convention in San Francisco prominently features the word "Access". Those of us whose scholarship intersects with the Web know that the word "access" has many different connotations: access to computers, access to education, access to journals, access to information, and access to opportunity, among others. And along with "access" goes "accessibility". One of the ways to make sure information online is accessible is to validate it (reasons for validating can be found in many places, including Guideline 4.1 of the W3C's above-linked Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), but making sure your site's code validates can be a pretty significant undertaking. My site's markup doesn't yet pass either the W3C's or the Bobby validators for standards compliance, but I'm working on it slowly (basically, it's mostly MT issues, which I'm hesitant to tinker with), and the site at least has a doctype and uses alt tags for the graphics. The other stuff will come along as I find the time. But I wonder: with their concerns about access, when will the CCCC's pages validate? Furthermore, since (as I understand it) any entity in the US that receives federal funding is required to be Section 508-compliant, has anybody using Web courseware like Blackboard or WebCT done research into their compliance with Web standards?