Accessibility Questions for Vendors
Questions to Evaluate Vendor's Commitment to ICT Accessibility
General Questions Heading link
- Do your web-based resources (web application, documentation, and training materials) comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and Section 508 Information Technology Accessibility Standards? Please supply any reports available to support this.
- Does your software interfaces comply with Section 508 Information Technology Accessibility Standards? Please supply any reports available to support this.
- Does multimedia (Audio and Video) resources comply with WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 Information Technology Accessibility Standards? Please supply any reports available to support this.
- Describe how testing and quality assurance processes are tested for implementation of accessible coding techniques.
- Describe how you include people with disabilities in defining user requirements and usability testing.
- Describe how your documentation, online training and support resources/services comply with WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 Information Technology Accessibility Standards.
- Describe how the proposed ICT works with a variety of assistive technologies.
Technical Questions Regarding Accessibility Standards Heading link
- How does the proposed ICT provide text descriptions for images, graphs, charts, etc. as an alternative to visual content?
- If the proposed ICT contains audio or video media, how does your product make captions, transcripts, and audio description available to the user? Describe how University supplied multimedia content may be provided in an accessible method.
- Describe how the proposed ICT allows users to view and interact with content in a way that they prefer.
- How does the proposed ICT ensure the most important content is obvious to users with varying abilities?
- How does the proposed ICT ensure that the most important tasks can be completed easily with only the keyboard (tab, arrow keys, spacebar/enter)?
- How does the proposed ICT provide enough time for users with varying abilities to interact with content?
- Describe how the proposed ICT prevents inducing seizures by limiting components that flash more than three times per second.
- Describe how the proposed ICT provides ways that help users who cannot use a mouse or have visual impairments to navigate, find content, and determine where they are.
- How does the proposed ICT ensure that text content can be read by people and by assistive technologies?
- Describe how the proposed ICT appears and operates in predictable and consistent ways.
- Describe how the proposed ICT assists users to avoid, identify and correct mistakes.