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Re: should you or should you not tell partners about theaccessibility issues on their sites?

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From: Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
Date: Apr 13, 2016 1:23PM

I would agree. The business or 'partner' may or may not know much about accessibility. They may know about 'conformance to standards' but not about practical accessibility. As much as I'd want to pounce, I would give them the benefit of the doubt and any experience of my own - I tried accessing captions, I tried to complete your form using Dragon NaturallySpeaking and x, y, or x happened. It helps many see the practical side of it - what it really means for their customers or for end-users - more than just "but the software vendor showed me a VPAT!"

Gary