[Foundation-l] VPAT

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VPAT is a statement by the authors of software, showing how accessibility
needs are taken account of in the software. Buyers and users of the software
may wish to (or have a duty to) take that into account in their decision
whether they will use the software.

WMF might be asked for Mediawiki's VPAT statement, as the developer of the
Mediawiki software, by anyone who wants to use Mediawiki and wants to (or
needs to) take into account its accessibility standing, either for policy
reasons or because they are under some kind of obligation (eg legal
requirement) to do so.

The existence of a VPAT might be of general interest (eg on mediawiki-l),
but a request or discussion by a specific potential Mediawiki user making an
inquiry isn't really a list matter. It's more an administrative inquiry.

As an example, here's Mozilla's VPAT for the Firefox browser:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/vpat-3.html
and
http://www.mozilla.org/access/section508

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