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Re: When is 508 required? :)

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From: mhysnm1964@gmail.com
Date: Jun 22, 2018 12:31AM

This is interesting. As the section 508 is about procurement. Thus Excel
needs to be accessible. But does spreadsheets from a third-party need to be?
If you are selling them a service maybe? This is a legal question in deed.

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Hi all,

I'm wondering about a potential request that may be coming my way. A
government client wants to make sure a few thousand Excel documents are 508
compliant, but these documents will be exchanged privately between the
companies and the government. They won't be publicly available, and there
aren't any employees accessing these files who need them to be 508
compliant. One of my colleagues said they need to be compliant because "you
never know" who might be working on the documents in the future. But what is
the law, really? I am looking, of course, but I figured I'd ask all of you,
too.




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