ICT Accessibility Requirements Statement per Revised Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act

This document is an ICT Accessibility Requirements Statement outlining mandatory accessibility standards for electronic software procured by federal agencies under the Revised Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

The statement establishes technical criteria for software and electronic content accessibility. Software components that transmit information or contain user interfaces must conform to WCAG 2.0 Level A and Level AA Success Criteria and Conformance Requirements. User interface components and platform content shall meet these standards, with specific word substitutions applied when WCAG criteria are adapted for non-Web software environments—replacing "Web page" or "page" with "software." For non-Web software requiring multiple steps to complete activities, all related software must conform to WCAG 2.0 as specified. Electronic content must comply with Section 205 accessibility requirements, including specific exemptions for non-public-facing content such as emergency notifications, administrative decisions, program announcements, benefits notices, acknowledgments, surveys, templates, forms, educational materials, and intranet content designed as Web pages. Software must interoperate with assistive technology and conform to Section 502 standards, including documented accessibility features, programmatic determinability of object information, support for user preference settings regarding color, contrast, font type and size, and focus cursor modifications. Applications must expose information necessary to track focus and selection attributes, provide event notifications for state and value changes, and allow assistive technology to programmatically execute available actions on objects. This Accessibility Requirements Statement should be incorporated into solicitation documents (SOO, SOW, PWS, etc.), with additional procurement guidance available through the Revised 508 Standards Toolkit.