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Re: Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)?



Hi,

I started reading but it is always a pain for me understanding such documents. Perhaps we could ask to Ubuntu how they did to get this certification? From a method point of view, how does it work? Is it a list of criterias and we should fill them against a desktop or an app, or is it a kind of guidelines?

Thanks for your help to understand this, I am interested to fill such report about Debian (MATE and tty for example)

Regards


Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Debian Developer non uploading
Community team member
Accessibility team member
debian-l10n-french team member
President of Debian France non-profit organization

Le 29/03/2022 à 00:50, Jason White a écrit :

On 28/3/22 13:57, Samuel Thibault wrote:
I don't know about VPAT, but since Ubuntu has one, I guess Debian can
have one, it'd be a matter of somebody having a look at it.
The latest version of the VPAT allows for reporting of conformance to both U.S. and E.U. accessibility standards.

https://www.itic.org/policy/accessibility/vpat

Writing one for any Linux distribution would be an enormous undertaking, given the number of packages involved. A Linux distribution, as is well known in the community, includes an abundance of application software in addition to operating system components. If everything that provides a user interface would need to be evaluated for purposes of the report, then it's an extraordinary task.

I suppose one could write a VPAT for each desktop environment (also a large task) and one for each application.

I think this is probably best left to commercial distributors who are selling Linux-based systems to clients such as public-sector entities that require VPAT documentation.




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