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From: Logan Trafford
Date: Mar 24, 2020 12:27PM

I'd like to chime in and state that if this is related to AODA, the City of
Ottawa will not accept a VPAT as it still isn't relevant to us. We have
vendors submit assessments utilizing the WCAG-EM Tool.
In terms of PDF, while the legislation only states they need to be WCAG 2.0
AA conformant, assuming you consider a PDF as part of the "web content"
definition, the better standard you should use is PDF U/A, Those documents
can be validated by using either the free PAC (PDF Accessibility Checking
Tool) or the free CommonLook Validator tool.

Logan Trafford
Web Accessibility Coordinator
City of Ottawa


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> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 07:47:47 -0300
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] VPAT version for AODA
> Hi Sudheer,
>
> Currently, the AODA Information and Communications Standard is based on
> WCAG. So the regular VPAT will do for it. However, look for the ICS Review
> that hasnt been put into the final revised version (phase 2
> particularly)... the government may or may not accept that Review.
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> Cheers
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> Lisa
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> > On Mar 24, 2020, at 7:41 AM, Sudheer Babu < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Can someone please point me to the VPAT document used for AODA standards
> > web application.
> > The application also has some PDFs included in it.
> > So will the WCAG version works ? Or we have anything else ? Please
> advise.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sudheer
> > > > > > > > >
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> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:48:05 +0530
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] VPAT version for AODA
> Thanks for the quick reply Lisa!
> For WCAG version how do we map to the PDF checkpoints?
> Is there a separate version for documents?
>
> Thanks,
> Sudheer
>
>
>
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> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, 4:17 PM Lisa Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Hi Sudheer,
> >
> > Currently, the AODA Information and Communications Standard is based on
> > WCAG. So the regular VPAT will do for it. However, look for the ICS
> Review
> > that hasnt been put into the final revised version (phase 2
> > particularly)... the government may or may not accept that Review.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Lisa
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Mar 24, 2020, at 7:41 AM, Sudheer Babu < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Can someone please point me to the VPAT document used for AODA
> standards
> > > web application.
> > > The application also has some PDFs included in it.
> > > So will the WCAG version works ? Or we have anything else ? Please
> > advise.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Sudheer
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
>
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:13:22 -0400
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] VPAT version for AODA
> Here is the W3C PDF Techniques for WCAG
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/pdf
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
>