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Re: How to become a DHS "Trusted Tester"?

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From: Katie Haritos-Shea
Date: Jul 18, 2017 8:36AM

The Trusted Tester program is looking to update using WCAG 2 (currently it
validates the old Section 508 standards), you might want to wait until that
is ready.

Katie Haritos-Shea
703-371-5545

On Jul 17, 2017 11:01 PM, "Robert Fentress" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

Thanks, Ryan. I heard back from DHS OAST and they sent me an application.
Looks like it is available beyond DHS and even the federal government. I'm
exploring whether it might be a useful framework for ensuring the
reliability of evaluations of products that are used by peer universities
in Virginia. It would be nice if we could eliminate some of the
duplication in our testing. I do wonder, though, how useful it will be
with the move towards software as a service with rapid release cycles.

On Jul 14, 2017 5:42 PM, "Ryan E. Benson" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> It started as a DHS only certification, meaning you needed to get the Cert
> to officially test DHS systems for namely 508 compliance, and did some
WCAG
> 2.0. There was some activities to get it used across all of the federal
> government, but I am not 100% sure what the status is right now, I think
> there was work generalizing it - taking out the DHS specifics and update
> the content to WCAG 2.0.
>
> I'll try to ask my POC on Monday.
>
> --
> Ryan E. Benson
>
> From: Angela French
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 13:38
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] How to become a DHS "Trusted Tester"?
>
> How about people who work for state governments?
>
> Angela French
> WA State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
>
>