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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Oct 22, 2013 9:50PM

This is all good information everyone is sending to me. Keep it coming.
this is a project UC is going to need to go through quickly in the next
few months. We will post whatever we come up with in the near future . If
there is interest I will put something on my blog about the document when
its live. Lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces

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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-complian
ce.html

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Lucy Greco
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Hello:
As some of you may be aware UC just past a new access policy that
requires W3c 2.0 as for any new development and or purchases. And I have
been asked to participate in the first RFP that will be requiring this.
it's so new I don't have any documentation created yet about How to look
for and or check for this standard when evaluating venders. That long
winded explanation is to ask what if anything is the equivalent of the
VPAT for W3C 2.0 a and or aa or aaa thanks Lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
Follow me on twitter @accessaces
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