B08_ATCH_2_508.pdf

This document is an ICT Accessibility Requirements Statement per the Revised Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, which establishes accessibility standards for electronic software procured by federal agencies.

The statement specifies that software components transmitting information or featuring user interfaces must conform to E207 standards and Chapter 5 requirements. User interface components and application content must meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level A and Level AA Success Criteria. For non-Web software, the term "software" substitutes for "Web page" and "page" in WCAG standards, and multi-step software activities must fully conform to WCAG 2.0 as specified in E207.2. Electronic content must comply with E205 standards, with specific requirements for non-public-facing agency official communications including emergency notifications, administrative decisions, program announcements, benefits notices, formal acknowledgments, surveys, templates, forms, educational materials, and intranet content designed as Web pages. Software must interoperate with assistive technology and conform to standard 502, including documented accessibility features that cannot be disrupted. Technical criteria require that object information (role, state, properties, boundary, name, description), text content, data table elements, label relationships, and hierarchical relationships be programmatically determinable. Applications must allow assistive technology to execute available actions on objects, track focus and text insertion points, provide event notifications for state and value changes, and permit user preferences for color, contrast, font type, font size, and focus cursor settings. Agencies should incorporate this Accessibility Requirements Report into solicitation documents (SOO, SOW, PWS) and reference the Revised 508 Standards Toolkit for additional procurement guidance.