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Re: VPATs for Word, PPT, Excel, etc.

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From: chagnon@pubcom.com
Date: Jun 1, 2018 2:47PM

No.
VPAT has the word "Voluntary" in it, which to me means "whatever you want."

The government would be better served if they required certification of documents files for Sec. 508 compliant (WCAG 2.0, PDF/UA-1). Use any of our free or not-so-free tools such as:

Acrobat Pro DC:2018
Word and PowerPoint built-in checker
Axes 4
PAC-3
NetCentric's Validator

Generally, we find that if the file passes any combo of two of these, then it's usually ok, but of course, the best testing is done my knowledgeable humans!

--Bevi Chagnon

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Subject: [WebAIM] VPATs for Word, PPT, Excel, etc

Have any of you ever had to submit VPATs for Word files, PDFs, Excel, etc, when providing deliverables to the government?