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Re: VPAT repository?

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Nov 4, 2011 3:21PM

We are considering how we should collect and make available to those who need them VPATs for the technology tools used for our campus. The vendors who have been asked so far have just been given the link: http://www.itic.org/index.php?src=gendocs&;ref=vpat&category=resources and told that they should email the VPAT or its URL to me. As we expand our efforts, several questions have come up. If you have experience with this or ideas about it, could you share?

FWIW, all Adobe VPATs are available at http://adobe.com/accessibility/products/compliance

- Is a vendor REQUIRED to produce a VPAT (even though the name says 'voluntary' :-)) before its bid is considered? i.e. is submitting a VPAT a prerequisite for us doing business with your firm?

That's up to you. In official government procurement rules the procurement agent is required to collect information about the compliance of a product. Most do so via a request for the VPAT, but they could theoretically just do the research independently. Your policy in the school may vary.

AWK