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

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From: Brian Richwine
Date: Oct 24, 2013 2:48PM

We've looked at the AG Accessibility Checklist 2, located here:
http://www.accessibility-checklist.ch/#en

However it is very HTML specific.

-Brian

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Andrew
> Kirkpatrick
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:04 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] 508 asks for a VPAT what does W3C have that's
> similar
>
> 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
>
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> http://twitter.com/awkawk
> http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Lucy Greco
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 2:06 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: [WebAIM] 508 asks for a VPAT what does W3C have that's similar
> Importance: High
>
> 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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