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From: Peter Shikli
Date: Oct 10, 2018 12:56PM

Whereas an attorney would like you to pronounce your professional
opinion whether a website is accessible or not, we feel that opens you
to undue liabilities given how the question remains uncertain after the
current administration's refusal to allow DoJ proceeding in its rule
making on the subject.

Better is to lay out exactly what standard you will test to, WCAG or
Section 508, and what testing methodology you will use.  As Trusted
Testers <https://www.dhs.gov/trusted-tester> following the objective and
detailed test procedures laid out by the Office of Accessible Systems &
Technology, we guarantee adherence to those procedures in our report,
but the client has to then decide if following our recommended
remediations makes them accessible.  That is usually good enough for
federal agencies bound by Section 508, but the private sector's
compliance to Title II or Title III of the ADA remains the Wild West of
hired gunslingers.

Cheers,
Peter Shikli
Access2online
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