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Section 508 Blog - Voices From the Front Line

Read the full Section 508 Blog at Buyaccessible.gov
To read the full Section 508 Blog...conversations about Section 508, bookmark http://www.buyaccessible.gov/blog
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SAVE THE DATES: The Training subcommittee of the Accessibility Community of Practice of the CIOC announces webinar dates for 2014
The Training subcommittee of the Accessibility Community of Practice of the CIOC announces webinar dates for 2014:

Section 508 Best Practices Webinar Series
Dates:
January 28, 2014
March 25, 2014
May 22, 2014
July 29, 2014
September 30, 2014
November 20, 2014

NOTE: Topics will be announced at a future date.

All webinars will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET
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New Video & Multimedia Accessibility Guide
The Video and Multimedia Accessibility Guide, which covers captioning, audio-description, and accessible multimedia players, is available on HowTo.gov.
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What's Happening

Monday, May 20, 2013
CIOC Software Development Life Cycle Guidance
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
CIOC Accessibility Statement Best Practices
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
CIO.gov Accessibility Policies and Governance
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
CIO Council Accessibility Technical Guidance

The BuyAccessible Wizard

The BuyAccessible System has three components, all made available to any agency at no cost to help with the quick, easy, and efficient implementation of all Section 508 standards.

  1. The BuyAccessible Wizard( http://buyaccessible.gov/), which can help you when purchasing Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) products and services to determine if Section 508 applies to your purchase or to find accessibility information. The BuyAccessible Wizard can help with your market research— and even has tools to write your solicitation language.
  2. Quick-Links (http://app.buyaccessible.gov/baw/Quick-Links/index.jsp), which are pre-packaged Government Product Accessibility Template (GPAT) and Solicitation language for a number of standard EIT deliverables. Users can select their deliverable from the drop down list to download the GPAT and solicitation language.
  3. The Vendor Accessibility Resource Center (VARC at http://buyaccessible.gov/content/VARC) a comprehensive listing of Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) vendors with URLs to their company accessibility information or VPATS to help you with your market research. The Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) the most common format vendors can use to describe how their products and services conform to the EIT accessibility standard. The VPAT is a form created by industry and can be requested as part of a solicitation making it mandatory for the vendor to submit with their bid.

Some BuyAccessible.gov features:

  • Training for Buyers
  • Training for Sellers
  • BuyAccessible Glossary
  • Acquisition Central
  • Federal Acquisition Regulations
  • and much more!

 

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