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From: sucharu
Date: Aug 11, 2016 10:52PM

Hi All,

Hope you all doing well.

I do have a concern: Do Section 508 lays some criterion for assistive
technologies being used to evaluate some software or web content?

Here is a scenario, some application is to be tested with ChromeVox (to
carry out usability part of accessibility testing), while the underlying
content is confirming to WCAG 2.0 but is inaccessible for screen-reader
user. Hence, it fails to pass usability tests.

As far as I know, VPATs don't contain information regarding the test
matrixbeing used while carrying out accessibility testing.



Best,

Sucharu