[Foundation-l] VPAT

[David Gerard]

On 20 February 2011 13:09, aude <aude.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Section 508, widely used beyond government, is a benchmark to allow us
> to assess how we do in this regard.


Yep. 508 compliance for software is considered simply good practice,
even if you don't *have* to apply it.


> Since the US gov already uses mediawiki, know we have some admins that
> use a screen reader, know mediawiki supports keyboard shortcuts, etc.,
> then I think we do pretty well to meet 508 though an assessment might
> identify some additional bugs.
> I would totally support us doing a VPAT (its voluntary) assessment and
> have it available on mediawiki wiki.


+1


- d.