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Re: Accessibility Reports for acquisition managers?

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From: BF Devs
Date: Jan 18, 2018 11:07AM

Closest might be a VPAT, but as far as I know, the only companies who tend to have VPATs on hand deal with government agencies.

Following, though.

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Katriel

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> On Jan 18, 2018, at 1:05 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm wondering if there is any kind of report or scoring mechanism other
> than WCAG As I can ask vendors to provide me while searching for software
> to purchace for our company?
> I'm wasting a whole lot of time reviewing interfaces that are not
> accessible in critical ways with my screen reader and I would like to just
> ask for an accessibility report that says "This company has reviewed their
> web interface and it is n level of accessible" or something like that?
> I'm thinking of just requiring all our software to be WCAG AA before I will
> look at it, but I don't think it is easy to rank a website as WCAG AA or
> AAA.
> Especially for elastic markets for software like PSAs, HR, timekeeping,
> CRMs, password safes, cloud storage, accounting, and stuff like that, I
> would like a way to just canvas as many companies as possible and ask them
> for an accessibility report, then I can look at the ones who actually
> respond. I don't want to spend hours going through an accounting software
> just to find that the reports screen is not accessible.
> Is there anything like this?
> Thank you,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;
> > > >