[Evergreen-general] Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)

[Jane Sandberg]

I agree with Benjamin's overview 100%.  Also, I do think that a formal VPAT
would be a helpful thing for the community to have -- it's an industry
standard for sure.  This has come up in other open source communities
I'm in as well.

I'd gladly participate in a group, or convene one, to create a VPAT and
document the process so that it is repeatable.  Another approach would be
to contract out to a respected accessibility vendor for a VPAT -- I think
this could be valuable to get additional expertise from outside the
community, especially if we could repeat this process on a regular basis
(for example, every other feature release).

El sáb, 10 jun 2023 a la(s) 12:24, Benjamin Kalish via Evergreen-general (
evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org) escribió:

> It's several years out of date, but it looks like the Georgia Center for
> Inclusive Design and Innovation did an Accessibility Evaluation
> <https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=accessibility:evergreen_evaluation_report.pdf>
> of Evergreen in June 2019.
>
> Accessibility has not always been a focus in the community but has been
> getting a lot more love lately and I know some of the problems identified
> in that report have been fixed while others remain.
>
> I'm hoping someone else will chime in if there are more current resources
> we can point you towards.
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> On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 8:36 AM PYF HTMLCSS via Evergreen-general <
> evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi There,
>>
>> I am looking to get evergreen installed in our organization but our IT
>> department requires a VPAT. I was wondering if Evergreen has one?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Phil
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