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From: Brian Richwine
Date: Oct 13, 2013 3:16PM

If they are covered by Section 504, or the ADA, then their responsibilities
(or that of their clients/customers) may go beyond that of meeting
technical (WCAG/508) requirements.

For instance, public education institutions (like state universities) must
provide accessible programs and services (either directly, or through
equivalent facilitation). In the end, individuals with disabilities must
have the opportunity to:

- acquire the same information
- engage in the same interactions
- and enjoy the same services

in an

- as timely a manner
- an equally effective and equally integrated manner
- and with substantially equivalent ease of use

as everyone else. So, while a vendor might not be directly responsible to
provide full accessibility, some clients might be... and they might pass
that responsibility down to the vendor contractually. For instance, we ask
vendors to help us by either providing workarounds or by helping us provide
workarounds that form equally effective forms of alternate access to the
functions their technologies would provide our users. If we can't use the
product accessibly or find an equally effective alternative, then we can't
use it.

See the following publication from the U.S. Department of Education for
more:
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/dcl-ebook-faq-201105.pdf

-Brian


On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> wrote:

> We have a client in the US for whom we have been conducting WCAG audits
> and expert reviews with assistive technologies for a web-based service that
> they provide. They now say they want accessibility consultancy from a
> company with "deep US regulation understanding".
>
> We are fully conversant with WCAG, Section 508 and VPATs but our client is
> convinced there is more that they need to know. However, they are entirely
> unable to articulate what it is.
>
> Is there some relevant US regulation that we are not aware of? If there
> is, I am happy to introduce other consultants to our client.
>
> Regards,
> Steve Green
> Managing Director
> Test Partners Ltd
> 5 Percy Street, London W1T 1DG
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