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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Jun 28, 2017 6:47PM

Andrea,
I recommend reaching out to CMS' 508 Coordinator for official guidance. The
checklist is how the Department judges if a file is compliant or not. This
is outlined in HHS Section 508 Policy, section 5.13.f (
https://www.hhs.gov/ocio/policy/508_policy.html#513AllHHSStaff)
Will ensure that contractors and vendors provide complete and accurate
HHS Section 508 Acceptance Checklists for all ICT being developed,
procured, maintained or used by HHS employees and by the public sites,
websites and applications.

--
Ryan E. Benson

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Andrea Miralia <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>
>
> I've been the 508 person at my company (a contractor for CMS) for 2 1/2
> years now, and we've never been asked nor trained to attach nor complete
> the HHS checklist, a footer, or add a medallion. We *do* follow the
> checklists as part of our procedures to make documents compliant, but not
> as a formal part of submission. (We treat the checklists as just internal
> reminders, not as deliverables.) We've never been asked to submit anything
> additional. When we deliver our documents, we deliver accessibility reports
> (separately, not attached) for each document. With that said, we've never
> received any communication from a 508 person at CMS!
>
>
> Andréa Miralia
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Ryan E. Benson
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 10:44 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] "marked" as compliant?
>
> I am not familiar with CMS' checklists, but I thought they just used the
> ones I mentioned. There's not a way to mark it as compliant. Normally the
> appropriate checklist is completed, and maybe another party will double
> check, but that is it. You might to check the file properties window, if
> this is a pdf, and make sure it thinks that it is tagged. Other than that,
> I would ask for clarification from the person or the 508 coordinator.
>
> Your 508 coordinator knows me, tell him to email me at my work address if
> he wants to.
>
> Ryan E. Benson
>
> On Jun 26, 2017 09:26, "Andrea Miralia" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Ryan,
> > Yes... We're familiar with remediating documents for CMS. What we have
> > not seen before is a file actually marked, in some way, as "compliant."
> > Usually, we just remediate the file in Word and PDF and attach the
> > accessibility report. CMS has never asked for a file to be "marked"
> > otherwise; we did not get clarification on what they mean by this. We
> > use the HHS and CMS checklists frequently. But those do not mention
> "marking"
> > anything or having any sort of addition to a file.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> > Behalf Of Ryan E. Benson
> > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 9:02 AM
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List
> > Subject: Re: [WebAIM] "marked" as compliant?
> >
> > Cms is part of HHS, so you should be making the files meet the
> > checklists on http://508.hhs.gov. The link is near the bottom of the
> page.
> >
> > Ryan E. Benson
> >
> > On Jun 26, 2017 08:09, "Andrea Miralia"
> > < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > We remediated a document for CMS, and then got this comment back.
> > I've never seen this before. Anyone know what they want here? Lol
> >
> > "If the materials are not marked as 508 compliant, CMS will still
> > proceed with the established meeting but be unable to share provided
> > materials electronically throughout the agency."
> >
> > In the past, we've just included the accessibility report.
> >
> >
> >
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