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Re: RFP Boilerplate for Accessibility

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From: L Snider
Date: Jan 23, 2019 9:24PM

Hi Peter,
For Mandate 376 in Europe they put together this tool for government
procurement:
http://mandate376.standards.eu/procurement-stages/writing-a-call-for-tenders/wizard/technical-requirements/

There are others I have found, but don't have them on my backup computer.

Cheers

Lisa

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:15 PM Peter Shikli < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Coming our way was yet another case of an agency paying for a website
> that turned out to be inaccessible. The audit and remediation business
> is good, but I have to empathize with the procurement folks catching
> management wrath.
>
> Like many RFPs, theirs left it to the vendor to claim that they were
> accessible, and nothing more. Since interpretation of standards like
> WCAG can be subjective, particularly for procurement folks untrained in
> the subject, and the vendor can always later claim an accessibility
> complaint was caused by staff content -- or that the website was
> accessible when they delivered but no longer. Lots of easy wiggle room.
>
> I googled around looking for website procurement instructions to avoid
> this all too common outcome, something accessibility professionals
> helped write, something that could be added to RFP boilerplate. I found
> nothing. Has anyone ever heard of something like that?
>
> Cheers,
> Peter Shikli
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