A VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template®) is a reporting format that enables vendors to document their product's conformance with relevant accessibility standards.
The Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) based on the ITI VPAT® is the leading global reporting format for assisting buyers and sellers in identifying information and communications technology (ICT) products and services with accessibility features. Version 2 of the VPAT was expanded to include the leading ICT accessibility standards: Section 508 (U.S.), EN 301 549 (EU), and W3C/WAI WCAG.
ITI remains committed to maintaining the market relevance of the VPAT. We will continue to assess and respond to global developments in ICT accessibility standardization as appropriate.
In each VPAT, the vendor is expected to make specific statements, in simple understandable (recommended) language, about how their product or service meets the requirements of the Section 508 Standards (section by section, and paragraph by paragraph)
There are various types of VPATs. Here are blank copies of each version of VPAT with detailed explanations of each.
There are based on:
VPAT® Version 2.4 (February 2020)
Consistent with the original VPAT, version 2.4 provides a column for recording conformance to each provision of a standard or guideline relevant to a product or service. Manufacturers or vendors declare the degree of conformance using one of four conformance levels: supports; partially supports; does not support; or not applicable. Note that, in a previous update of the VPAT, “partially supports” replaced “supports with exceptions.” This change was made at the request of representatives of the U.S. Access Board. Version 2.4 also includes a column for providing a more detailed explanation for each reported conformance level.
In response to user feedback, ITI created four different editions of the VPAT, enabling ICT manufacturers and vendors to create Accessibility Conformance Reports focused on the standards relevant to specific markets and contract requirements:
These are VPATs collected from vendors we partner with Centrally.
If you get a VPAT from a vendor, please send a copy to Amy Wolfe, OLS Accessibility Librarian amy.wolfe@cuny.edu for inclusion on this list.
Want to learn more about VPATs and Accessibility Conformance Reports? The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) created 8 free online training modules on VPAT.
Source:
https://www.itic.org/policy/accessibility/vpat
There are over 50 DBs which CUNY gets from EBSCOHost which the above VPAT covers.
Accessibility Statement on Site:
ISKME is committed to making its OERC Platform usable and accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability, and provides a number of features that support the accessibility of the OERC Platform:
Limitations to Accessibility. While ISKME strives to ensure the accessibility of the OERC Platform, you may find some limitations.
Please report any problems to the ISKME support team at OER Commons (info@oercommons.org). For fastest processing, please include the phrase “Accessibility Request” in the subject line and in the body of your message.
NOTE: March 13, 2019 CAST.org (Center for Applied Special Technology) announced a new partnership with ISKME to improve the availability and accessibility of OERs. CAST, founded in 1984, has earned international recognition for its development of innovative approaches to expanding educational opportunities for all individuals based on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
Accessibility Statement on Site:
ISKME is committed to making its OERC Platform usable and accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability, and provides a number of features that support the accessibility of the OERC Platform:
Limitations to Accessibility. While ISKME strives to ensure the accessibility of the OERC Platform, you may find some limitations.
Please report any problems to the ISKME support team at OER Commons (info@oercommons.org). For fastest processing, please include the phrase “Accessibility Request” in the subject line and in the body of your message.
NOTE: March 13, 2019 CAST.org (Center for Applied Special Technology) announced a new partnership with ISKME to improve the availability and accessibility of OERs. CAST, founded in 1984, has earned international recognition for its development of innovative approaches to expanding educational opportunities for all individuals based on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
IMPORTANT NOTE ON ACCESSIBILITY:
To use assistive technology (screen readers, OpenDyslexic typeface) you must turn on "Accessibility Mode" in your ProQuest profile.
You only need to do this once and the system will remember your settings.
After you logon for off-campus access:
As of March 2019, Zotero does not have a VPAT.
On a Zotero forum the following was stated when a user asked if there was a VPAT:
"People are using Zotero with NVDA on Windows fairly successfully, though we're aware of areas where we need to improve.
In our limited testing, the current version of Zotero does not work particularly well with VoiceOver on macOS. (The current version of Zotero is based on Firefox, which has only very basic VoiceOver support.)
We're in the process of porting Zotero to a new architecture, and we're hoping to address many accessibility issues at the same time. We're also working on a new version of the web library with much better accessibility support.
Unless otherwise noted, these accessibility guides were created by Accessibility Librarian Amy Wolfe for CUNY and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If you re-use, remix or link to this guide, it would be appreciated if you could notify the creator Accessibility Librarian Amy Wolfe.