VPAT® 2.0: The More Stringent Accessibility Reporting Tool for Gov IT Procurement

Introducing VPAT® 2.0, the More Stringent Accessibility Reporting Tool Required for Government IT Procurement

Accessibility reporting requirements for government IT just got tighter—Here’s how VPAT® 2.0 affects vendors, purchasers, and people with disabilities.
*NOTE: The Information Technology Industry Council has released subsequent minor VPAT revisions, available on the ITIC VPAT® web page. Read more about the VPAT® 2.3 updates. 

Where there’s government, there’s technology. And where’s there’s government technology, there’s a requirement to be accessible to people with disabilities.

For 20 years, United States federal government agencies and federally funded programs have been required to make information and communication technology (ICT) products and services they procure, develop, maintain, and use accessible to people with disabilities.  This includes a wide variety of products such as websites, photocopiers, fax machines, word processing applications, and more.[1]

In fiscal year 2017, the federal government sector spent $81 billion on information technology.[2]

A growing number of companies—from startups to industry giants—are aiming for a piece of that government technology budget.  That means it’s critically important that both sides of the government procurement relationship understand what accessibility means, how accessibility compliance is determined, and [...]

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