B08_ATCH_2_508.pdf

This document is an ICT Accessibility Requirements Statement per the Revised Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, establishing mandatory accessibility standards for electronic software and related products used in federal contracts.

The requirements apply to software components that transmit information or have user interfaces, which must conform to WCAG 2.0 Level A and Level AA Success Criteria. For non-Web software, the term "software" substitutes for "Web page" in WCAG criteria, and all software related to completing an activity must conform to WCAG 2.0 standards. Electronic content must comply with E205 standards, with specific exceptions for non-public-facing agency official communications including emergency notifications, administrative decisions, program announcements, benefits notices, acknowledgments, surveys, templates, forms, educational materials, and intranet Web pages. Software must interoperate with assistive technology per E502.1 and conform to specific technical criteria including documented accessibility features (E502.2), object information programmatic determinability (E502.3.1), user-modifiable states and properties (E502.3.2), data table structure (E502.3.3), current and allowable values (E502.3.4), label relationships (E502.3.6), hierarchical relationships (E502.3.7), text content and rendering (E502.3.8), modification of text by users (E502.3.9), actions on objects (E502.3.11), focus cursor tracking and modification (E502.3.12 and E502.3.13), and event notification (E502.3.14). Applications must comply with E503.1 and permit user preferences for color, contrast, font type, font size, and focus cursor from platform settings (E503.2). The Accessibility Requirements Report should be incorporated into solicitation documents (SOO, SOW, PWS, etc.), with reference to the Revised 508 Standards Toolkit for procurement guidance.