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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Jul 31, 2013 5:04PM

> I recently found a relatively decent
example from Articulate’s Storyline eLearning software
(http://www.articulate.com/products/storyline-section-508-vpat.php).

Personally I no longer trust Articulate. TL;DR: A year ago I checked them
out, they claimed full compliance then. No demos were compliant. I had one
team of experienced people in both e-learning and 508 put something
together via StoryLine, following all directions. Upon testing, the output
was kind of compliant, but had a slew of issues, nothing I'd "green light."
While working with our team, I was talking to one of their VPs, who said
the team was doing it incorrectly. I requested that they provide me a fully
compliant demo, they were not able to.

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Ryan E. Benson


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Jonathan Metz
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Debra makes some good points about what to look out for. A lot of VPATs
> seem to be marketing propaganda too, but they should read like a technical
> spec sheet.
>
> The purpose of VPATs should be to highlight what makes one product or
> service more accessible than another. I recently found a relatively decent
> example from Articulate’s Storyline eLearning software
> (http://www.articulate.com/products/storyline-section-508-vpat.php). I
> think it’s important to highlight where accessibility exceeds (for
> example, if something hits WCAG AAA level, it should be mentioned), and if
> it doesn’t meet a provision, then it should be mentioned or a workaround
> suggested (i.e. “Final delivered PDFs will not include comments”).
>
> My rule is, if it doesn’t inform me of what the thing does or doesn’t do,
> it’s not a good VPAT.
>
> Jon
>
>
>
> On 7/30/13 5:02 PM, "McMorland, Gabriel" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> >My question is really, Is some other institution already doing a great
> >job at vetting commercial software accessibility? I hope so, because it
> >looks time consuming and a lot of the programs our students would use are
> >widely used by lots of people.
> >
> >I do take the point about the complexity of this issue, though. Debra has
> >a good insight on reading VPATs.