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Re: Types of documents that must be accessible

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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Apr 16, 2017 11:19AM

Hi Alan,

Technically all documents created by the government are supposed to be
compliant. Where I work, all of our templates are compliant, but if the
person creating it doesn't follow guidance, what can we do? My office
provides pre-clearance to about two dozen contracts a day, and up to 4-6
dozen final clearances a day through another system - so trying to police
that is quite hard.Contracts should go through FedBizOps, which should
provide a POC for the solicitation outside of the document itself - which
you should be able to ask for a compliant version - of course not ideal.

For the summaries, I advocate them to be. From the government side, I tell
the COR/PM to remind the contractor that everything has to be compliant.
From the contractor side, I would early on say that your regular practice
is to deliver everything you make is accessible, and ask that the
government do this as well, and if they have questions, to talk to the
agency 508 Coordinator/Program.

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Ryan E. Benson

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Alan Zaitchik < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> For any government contracted work, apart from documents presented to the
> public over the web, would 508 accessibility requirements apply to other
> documents prepared in the course of executing the contract? I have in mind
> documents that government overseers of contracts might want to be given,
> whether for oversight and auditing purposes or for archival purposes.
> Examples include summaries of planning calls and teleconferences by the
> developers with or without government personnel. Do these summaries, often
> shared in emails, need to be 508 compliant?
> Does this depend on the specific federal (or state or other) agency? On
> the specific contract for the project in question?
> In any even what is the usual practice today?
>
>
> Thanks,
> A
> > > > >