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From: Mitchell Evan
Date: Mar 24, 2020 11:33PM

Hi Logan,

> 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.

I agree the WCAG-EM Report Tool
<https://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/report-tool/#!/ > can produce excellent WCAG
reports, but I'm curious — what aspects of VPAT 2.x
<https://www.itic.org/policy/accessibility/vpat> have been problematic? If
the WCAG section in VPAT hasn't worked well for Ottawa's needs, then I'd
like to understand what's lacking and see if we can get it fixed, either in
the VPAT template itself or in its instructions for vendors.

The WCAG edition of VPAT and the International edition of VPAT might be new
to some folks here. They are meant to help buyers and regulators compare
accessibility reports from different vendors easily, while vendors
shouldn't have to rewrite the same accessibility findings in multiple
report formats.

(Multiple languages, that's another matter.)

Cheers,
Mitchell

Mitchell Evan
+1 (510) 375-6104
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Twitter @mitchellrevan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellrevan/

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> Logan Trafford
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> 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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> > 1. Re: VPAT version for AODA (Lisa Snider)
> > 2. Re: VPAT version for AODA (Sudheer Babu)
> > 3. Re: VPAT version for AODA (Karlen Communications)
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> > From: Lisa Snider < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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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.
> >
> > Cheers
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> > Lisa
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