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From: Andrea Miralia
Date: Jun 22, 2018 10:53AM

What is "ICT?"

Anyway, my question was more... If the Excel spreadsheet is compliant before data is entered, it shouldn't really change after the data is entered. The participants won't be adding formulas or merging cells (and in fact, we might lock the documents so that they can't), so ... it seems unnecessary to re-remediate them and make sure they're still compliant after the data has been entered.



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While Section 508 is generally enforced through procurement it covers the use, maintenance, and development of ICT as well. Employees and members of the public have a civil right to access ICT in a comparable manner available to people without disabilities. There are 9 types of non-public documents that are covered by Section 508 to ensure that information needed by citizens of this country and employees with disabilities can have the same access as others.

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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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Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2018 10:59 PM
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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.