Voluntary Product Accessibility Template
Version 1.2
The purpose of the
Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, or VPAT, is to assist Federal
contracting officials and other buyers in making preliminary assessments
regarding the availability of commercial “Electronic and Information
Technology” products and services with features that support accessibility. It
is assumed and recommended that offerers will provide
additional contact information to facilitate more detailed inquiries.
The first table of the Template
provides a summary view of the section 508 Standards. The subsequent tables
provide more detailed views of each subsection. There are three columns in each
table. Column one of the Summary Table describes the subsections of subparts B
and C of the Standards. The second column describes the supporting features of
the product or refers you to the corresponding detailed table, "e.g.,
equivalent facilitation." The third column contains any additional remarks
and explanations regarding the product. In the subsequent tables, the first
column contains the lettered paragraphs of the subsections. The second column
describes the supporting features of the product with regard to that paragraph.
The third column contains any additional remarks and explanations regarding the
product.
Date:
Tuesday, November 01,
2005
Name of Product: YES – Your Employment Selections – web
version
Contact for more information: Trisped Projcts
at Utah State University
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Section 1194.22 Web-based Internet
information and applications – Detail
Voluntary Product Accessibility Template
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Criteria
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Supporting
Features
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Remarks
and explanations
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(a) A text equivalent for every
non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content).
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Pass
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(b) Equivalent alternatives for
any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation.
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Pass
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All multimedia
presentations include captions or a transcript
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(c) Web pages shall be designed
so that all information conveyed with color is also available without color,
for example from context or markup.
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Pass
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(d) Documents shall be organized
so they are readable without requiring an associated style sheet.
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Pass
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(e) Redundant text links shall be
provided for each active region of a server-side image map.
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Pass
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No server-side image maps present
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(f) Client-side image maps shall
be provided instead of server-side image maps except where the regions cannot
be defined with an available geometric shape.
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Pass
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No client-side image maps
present
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(g) Row and column headers shall
be identified for data tables.
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Pass
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(h) Markup shall be used to
associate data cells and header cells for data tables that have two or more
logical levels of row or column headers.
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Pass
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(i) Frames
shall be titled with text that facilitates frame identification and
navigation
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Pass
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No frames present
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(j) Pages shall be designed to
avoid causing the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and
lower than 55 Hz.
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Pass
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(k) A text-only page, with
equivalent information or functionality, shall be provided to make a web site
comply with the provisions of this part, when compliance cannot be
accomplished in any other way. The content of the text-only page shall be
updated whenever the primary page changes.
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Pass
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(l) When pages utilize scripting
languages to display content, or to create interface elements, the
information provided by the script shall be identified with functional text
that can be read by Assistive Technology.
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Pass
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(m) When a web page
requires that an applet, plug-in or other application be present on the
client system to interpret page content, the page must provide a link to a
plug-in or applet that complies with §1194.21(a) through (l).
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Pass
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(n) When electronic forms are
designed to be completed on-line, the form shall allow people using Assistive
Technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality
required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions
and cues.
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Pass
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(o) A method shall be provided
that permits users to skip repetitive navigation links.
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Pass
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(p) When a timed response is
required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient time to indicate
more time is required.
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Pass
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No timed responses required
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Note to 1194.22: The
Board interprets paragraphs (a) through (k) of this section as consistent with
the following priority 1 Checkpoints of the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) (May 5 1999) published by the Web Accessibility
Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium: Paragraph (a) - 1.1, (b) - 1.4,
(c) - 2.1, (d) - 6.1, (e) - 1.2, (f) - 9.1, (g) - 5.1, (h) - 5.2, (i) - 12.1, (j) - 7.1, (k) - 11.4.
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