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Re: When is 508 required? :)

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From: Andrea Miralia
Date: Jun 22, 2018 10:06AM


One thing I am wondering is why, in the past, other contractors have remediated the Excel spreadsheets both before *and after* the individual companies have filled them out. This seems unnecessary to me, as again, the spreadsheets are not being published anywhere; they're just being used to manage information like company name and address and membership numbers.

Anyone know why both the blank spreadsheets and the filled-in spreadsheets would have to be compliant? Seems excessive.



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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.