B08_ATCH_2_508.pdf

This document is an ICT Accessibility Requirements Statement that outlines federal accessibility standards for electronic software based on the Revised Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

The document specifies technical criteria that software and user interface components must meet to ensure accessibility compliance. For electronic software, components must conform to E207 and Chapter 5 requirements, with user interface components and platform content adhering to WCAG 2.0 Level A and Level AA Success Criteria and Conformance Requirements. When applying WCAG to non-Web software, the term "software" substitutes for "Web page" or "page," and when multiple steps are required to accomplish an activity, all related software must conform to WCAG 2.0 as specified in E207.2. Electronic content must comply with E205 standards; non-public-facing agency official communications (including emergency notifications, administrative decisions, program announcements, benefit notices, acknowledgements of receipt, surveys, templates, forms, educational materials, and intranet Web pages) must conform to E205.4 accessibility requirements. Software must interoperate with assistive technology and conform to Section 502 standards, including documented accessibility features, non-disruption of platform accessibility features, and programmatically determinable object information such as roles, states, properties, boundaries, names, and descriptions. Additional requirements address modification of object information, row and column headers in data tables, current and allowable values, label relationships, hierarchical relationships, text content, focus cursor tracking, event notification, user preferences for color, contrast, font type and size, and the capability for assistive technology to execute available actions on objects. This accessibility requirements statement should be incorporated into solicitation documents (SOO, SOW, PWS, etc.) for federal software procurements, with further guidance available through the Revised 508 Standards Toolkit.