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From: Steve Green
Date: Jan 18, 2018 11:30AM

VPATs are good because they are much more granular than simply stating level AA compliance (and virtually no websites in the world fully meet even AA, let alone AAA). In particular, VPATs provide a means to explain which features are less accessible than others, perhaps because they incorporate third-party or legacy content. VPATs aren't produced just for US government procurement - they are for everyone to use and we have even started creating them for some of our UK clients' applications.

Steve

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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/>;
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>