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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Sep 19, 2019 9:42AM

I have seen numerous bad third-party ones, or the third-party not
explaining what the document means.

> we usually provide the VPAT as a PDF so they can't change it!
LOL if they don't know they could, I'd be concerned with the company.
Unless you lock it down without messing the accessibility up, minor edits
can be done in Acrobat. File > save as works decently these days,
especially if the source came from a recent version of Word.

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Ryan E. Benson


On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:18 AM Steve Green < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I totally agree with that assessment. However, some VPATs are written by
> independent third parties, in which case it should say so on them and they
> should be more trustworthy. It's a service we provide for our clients, and
> we usually provide the VPAT as a PDF so they can't change it!
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> Steve
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