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Re: 508 asks for a VPAT what does W3C have that's similar

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Oct 22, 2013 9:04PM

Lucy,
There isn't an official way to deliver this information yet. The VPAT format was created by ITI and I expect that the discussions that have taken place by ITI and others related to adapting the VPAT for the new rules will someday need to be done at a less leisurely pace than has been the case for the last several years of waiting for the new rules.

Canadian customers are asking for the same thing as you and I suspect that Australian and customers from other countries have done so also. Absent a standard way of representing this information, we've made a simple document that is similar to the VPAT but uses WCAG 2.0. I expect that it will change at some point, but that the underlying product compliance data will be (hopefully) unchanged. Here's an example: http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/compliance/adobe-social-3-wcag-compliance.html

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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