B08_ATCH_2_508.pdf

This document is an ICT Accessibility Requirements Statement based on the Revised Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, establishing mandatory accessibility standards for electronic software and related products.

For electronic software, the document requires all software components that transmit information or have user interfaces to conform to E207 standards and Chapter 5 requirements. User interface components and platform content must meet WCAG 2.0 Level A and Level AA Success Criteria. Non-web software must apply WCAG standards with terminology substitutions (replacing "web page" with "software") and must ensure all steps within multi-step activities conform to WCAG 2.0. Electronic content must comply with E205, with specific requirements for agency official communications covering emergency notifications, administrative decisions, program announcements, benefits notices, acknowledgments, surveys, templates, forms, training materials, and intranet content. The software must interoperate with assistive technology, document platform accessibility features without disruption, and ensure object information (role, state, properties, boundary, name, and description) is programmatically determinable. Additional requirements include making user-modifiable states and properties programmable through assistive technology, ensuring data table structure accessibility, enabling actions on objects through assistive technology, exposing focus tracking mechanisms, and permitting user preferences for color, contrast, font type, font size, and focus cursor from platform settings. The document specifies that the Accessibility Requirements Report should be incorporated into solicitation requirements documents (SOO, SOW, PWS, etc.) and references the Revised 508 Standards Toolkit for additional procurement process guidance.