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BuyAccessible Government Product / Service Accessibility Template (GPAT)

Section 508 (http://section508.gov/section508policies)requires that federal agencies electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. The law applies to all Federal agencies when they develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology.

Requirements for accessibility based on Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794d) (http://section508.gov/Section508OfTheRehabilitationAct) are determined as applicable to this acquisition based on the following technical provisions: To understand the technical standards that apply to each provision, the respondent should refer to http://Section 508.gov at http://section508.gov/summarysection508standards.

This GPAT is a simple tool to assist Federal contracting and procurement officials in fulfilling the market research requirements associated with Section 508 regulations. The GPAT is intended as a form to be included with government solicitations, to be filled out by solicitation respondents as a part of their proposal to indicate how their proposed solution addresses the applicable Section 508 requirements.

NOTE: Section 508 provisions are determined to apply based in part on EIT requirements characterized using the BuyAccessible Wizard. Provisions based on definite EIT requirements are identified by a "yes" in the Applicable column. Provisions based on possible EIT requirements are identified by a "maybe" in the Applicable column. Provisions not identified with program requirements for this acquisition have no entry in the Applicable column. However, if your product or service deliverable has physical or functional characteristics corresponding to any of the listed EIT accessibility requirements, even those beyond identified program requirements, then the requirement applies and you should provide appropriate accessibility information.

The GPAT is organized as a series of ten tables. The first eight tables reflect accessibility information about EIT products, corresponding to the six technical sections, the functional performance criteria, and the requirements for information, documentation, and support as defined in the Access Board Standard for Section 508. The ninth and tenth tables correspond to accessibility information about information content deliverables and labor hours, respectively.

Please fill the information below as a part of request for accessibility information of your proposed deliverable. Product Name:_______________________________________ Vendor Name:________________________________________ Accessibility Information URL (if any):______________________________ file_1.png file_2.png file_3.png

1194.21 Software Applications and Operating Systems

Id

Provision Text

Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet this requirement?

Please explain a When software is designed to run on a system that has a keyboard, product functions shall be executable from a keyboard where the function itself or the result of performing a function can be discerned textually.

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Provision Text

Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet this

Applications shall not disrupt or disable requirement?

b activated features of other products that are identified as accessibility features, where those features are developed and documented according to industry standards. Applications also shall not disrupt or disable activated features of any operating system that are identified as accessibility features where the application programming interface for those accessibility features has been documented by the manufacturer of the operating system and is available to the product developer.

c A welldefined onscreen indication of the current focus shall be provided that moves among interactive interface elements as the input focus changes. The focus shall be programmatically exposed so that assistive technology can track focus and focus changes.

d Sufficient information about a user interface element including the identity, operation and state of the element shall be available to assistive technology. When an image represents a program element, the information conveyed by the image must also be available in text.

e When bitmap images are used to identify controls, status indicators, or other programmatic elements, the meaning assigned to those images shall be consistent throughout an application's performance.

f Textual information shall be provided through operating system functions for displaying text. The minimum information that shall be made available is text content, text input caret location, and text attributes.

g

Applications shall not override user selected contrast and color selections and other individual display attributes.

h When animation is displayed, the information shall be displayable in at least one nonanimated presentation mode at the option of the user.

i Color coding shall not be used as the only means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element.

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Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet this

Fully j When a product permits a user to adjust color and contrast settings, a variety of color selections capable of producing a range of contrast levels shall be provided.

Partially No k Software shall not use flashing or blinking text, objects, or other elements having a flash or blink frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz.

l When electronic forms are used, the form shall allow people using Assistive Technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues.

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Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet

A text equivalent for every nontext element shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content).

Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation.

Web pages shall be designed so that all information conveyed with color is also available without color, for example from context or markup.

Documents shall be organized so they are readable without requiring an associated style sheet.

Redundant text links shall be provided for each active region of a serverside image map.

Clientside image maps shall be provided instead of serverside image maps except where the regions cannot be defined with an available geometric shape.

Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables.

Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers.

Frames shall be titled with text that facilitates frame identification and navigation.

Pages shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz.

Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet this

A textonly page, with equivalent

Fully k information or functionality, shall be provided to make a web site comply with the provisions of this part, when compliance cannot be accomplished in any other way. The content of the textonly page shall be updated whenever the primary page changes.

Partially No l When pages utilize scripting languages to display content, or to create interface elements, the information provided by the script shall be identified with functional text that can be read by Assistive Technology.

m When a web page requires that an applet, plugin or other application be present on the client system to interpret page content, the page must provide a link to a plugin or applet that complies with 1194.21(a) through (l).

n When electronic forms are designed to be completed online, the form shall allow people using Assistive Technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues.

o

A method shall be provided that permits users to skip repetitive navigation links.

p

When a timed response is required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more time is required.

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1194.23 Telecommunication Products

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Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet

Telecommunications products or systems which provide a function allowing voice communication and which do not themselves provide a TTY functionality shall provide a standard nonacoustic connection point for TTYs. Microphones shall be capable of being turned on and off to allow the user to intermix speech with TTY use.

Telecommunications products which include voice communication functionality shall support all commonly used cross manufacturer nonproprietary standard TTY signal protocols.

Voice mail, autoattendant, and interactive voice response telecommunications systems shall be usable by TTY users with their TTYs.

Voice mail, messaging, autoattendant, and interactive voice response telecommunications systems that require a response from a user within a time interval, shall give an alert when the time interval is about to run out, and shall provide sufficient time for the user to indicate more time is required.

Where provided, caller identification and similar telecommunications functions shall also be available for users of TTYs, and for users who cannot see displays.

For transmitted voice signals, telecommunications products shall provide a gain adjustable up to a minimum of 20 dB. For incremental volume control, at least one intermediate step of 12 dB of gain shall be provided.

If the telecommunications product allows a user to adjust the receive volume, a function shall be provided to automatically reset the volume to the default level after every use.

Where a telecommunications product delivers output by an audio transducer which is normally held up to the ear, a means for effective magnetic wireless coupling to hearing technologies shall be provided.

Interference to hearing technologies (including hearing aids, cochlear implants, and assistive listening devices) shall be reduced to the lowest possible level that allows a user of hearing technologies to utilize the telecommunications product.

Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet this

Products that transmit or conduct information or communication, shall pass through crossmanufacturer, non proprietary, industrystandard codes, translation protocols, formats or other information necessary to provide the information or communication in a usable format. Technologies which use encoding, signal compression, format transformation, or similar techniques shall not remove information needed for access or shall restore it upon delivery.

k[1]

Products which have mechanically operated controls or keys shall comply with the following: Controls and Keys shall be tactilely discernible without activating the controls or keys.

k[2] Products which have mechanically operated controls or keys shall comply with the following: Controls and Keys shall be operable with one hand and shall not require tight grasping, pinching, twisting of the wrist. The force required to activate controls and keys shall be 5 lbs. (22.2N) maximum.

k[3] Products which have mechanically operated controls or keys shall comply with the following: If key repeat is supported, the delay before repeat shall be adjustable to at least 2 seconds. Key repeat rate shall be adjustable to 2 seconds per character.

k[4] Products which have mechanically operated controls or keys shall comply with the following: The status of all locking or toggle controls or keys shall be visually discernible, and discernible either through touch or sound.

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1194.24 Video and Multimedia Products

Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet

All analog television displays 13 inches and larger, and computer equipment that includes analog television receiver or display circuitry, shall be equipped with caption decoder circuitry which appropriately receives, decodes, and displays closed captions from broadcast, cable, videotape, and DVD signals. As soon as practicable, but not later than July 1, 2002, widescreen digital television (DTV) displays measuring at least 7.8 inches vertically, DTV sets with conventional displays measuring at least 13 inches vertically, and standalone DTV tuners, whether or not they are marketed with display screens, and computer equipment that includes DTV receiver or display circuitry, shall be equipped with caption decoder circuitry which appropriately receives, decodes, and displays closed captions from broadcast, cable, videotape, and DVD signals.

Television tuners, including tuner cards for use in computers, shall be equipped with secondary audio program playback circuitry.

All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission, regardless of format, that contain speech or other audio information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be open or closed captioned.

All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission, regardless of format, that contain visual information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be audio described.

Display or presentation of alternate text presentation or audio descriptions shall be userselectable unless permanent.

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1194.25 Self Contained, Closed Products

Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet

Self contained products shall be usable by people with disabilities without requiring an enduser to attach Assistive Technology to the product. Personal headsets for private listening are not Assistive Technology.

When a timed response is required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more time is required.

Where a product utilizes touchscreens or contactsensitive controls, an input method shall be provided that complies with

1194.23 (k) (1) through (4).

When biometric forms of user identification or control are used, an alternative form of identification or activation, which does not require the user to possess particular biological characteristics, shall also be provided.

When products provide auditory output, the audio signal shall be provided at a standard signal level through an industry standard connector that will allow for private listening. The product must provide the ability to interrupt, pause, and restart the audio at anytime.

When products deliver voice output in a public area, incremental volume control shall be provided with output amplification up to a level of at least 65 dB. Where the ambient noise level of the environment is above 45 dB, a volume gain of at least 20 dB above the ambient level shall be user selectable. A function shall be provided to automatically reset the volume to the default level after every use.

Color coding shall not be used as the only means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element.

When a product permits a user to adjust color and contrast settings, a range of color selections capable of producing a variety of contrast levels shall be provided.

Products shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz.

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Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet this

Products which are freestanding, non j[1] portable, and intended to be used in one location and which have operable controls shall comply with the following: The position of any operable control shall be determined with respect to a vertical plane, which is 48 inches in length, centered on the operable control, and at the maximum protrusion of the product within the 48 inch length on products which are freestanding, nonportable, and intended to be used in one location and which have operable controls.

j[2] Products which are freestanding, non portable, and intended to be used in one location and which have operable controls shall comply with the following: Where any operable control is 10 inches or less behind the reference plane, the height shall be 54 inches maximum and 15 inches minimum above the floor.

j[3] Products which are freestanding, non portable, and intended to be used in one location and which have operable controls shall comply with the following: Where any operable control is more than 10 inches and not more than 24 inches behind the reference plane, the height shall be 46 inches maximum and 15 inches minimum above the floor.

j[4] Products which are freestanding, non portable, and intended to be used in one location and which have operable controls shall comply with the following: Operable controls shall not be more than 24 inches behind the reference plane.

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1194.26 Desktop and Portable Computers

Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet

All mechanically operated controls and keys shall comply with 1194.23 (k) (1) through (4).

If a product utilizes touchscreens or touch operated controls, an input method shall be provided that complies with 1194.23 (k) (1) through (4).

When biometric forms of user identification or control are used, an alternative form of identification or activation, which does not require the user to possess particular biological characteristics, shall also be provided.

Where provided, at least one of each type of expansion slots, ports and connectors shall comply with publicly available industry standards.

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1194.31 Functional Performance Criteria

Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet

At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user vision shall be provided, or support for Assistive Technology used by people who are blind or visually impaired shall be provided.

yes

At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require visual acuity greater than 20/70 shall be provided in audio and enlarged print output working together or independently, or support for Assistive Technology used by people who are visually impaired shall be provided.

At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user hearing shall be provided, or support for Assistive Technology used by people who are deaf or hard of hearing shall be provided.

Where audio information is important for the use of a product, at least one mode of operation and information retrieval shall be provided in an enhanced auditory fashion, or support for assistive hearing devices shall be provided.

At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user speech shall be provided, or support for Assistive Technology used by people with disabilities shall be provided.

At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require fine motor control or simultaneous actions and that is operable with limited reach and strength shall be provided.

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1194.41 Information, Documentation, and Support

Provision Text

Applicable

Notes How does the EIT meet

Product support documentation provided to endusers shall be made available in alternate formats upon request, at no additional charges.

If Webbased information, documentation, and support are requested, then provisions from Section 1194.22 Webbased intranet and internet information and applications would apply.

If Webbased information, documentation, and support are requested via video and multimedia, then provisions 1194.24c, 1194.24d, 1194.24e would apply.

Endusers shall have access to a description of the accessibility and compatibility features of products in alternate formats, or alternate methods upon request, at no additional charge.

If Webbased information, documentation, and support are requested, then provisions from Section 1194.22 Webbased intranet and internet information and applications would apply.

If Webbased information, documentation, and support are requested via video and multimedia, then provisions 1194.24c, 1194.24d, 1194.24e

Support services for products shall accommodate the communication needs of endusers with disabilities.

If Webbased information, documentation, and support are requested, then provisions from Section 1194.22 Webbased intranet and internet information and applications would apply.

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Information Content Deliverable Accessibility Template

Please fill the information below as a part of request for accessibility information of your service deliverable. Vendor Name:________________________________________ Accessibility Information URL (if any):______________________________

NOTE: Section 508 requirements are determined to apply based in part on EIT requirements characterized using the BuyAccessible Wizard. Definite information content deliverable requirements are identified by a "yes" in the Applicable column. Possible information content deliverable requirements are identified by a "maybe" in the Applicable column.

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Section 508 Service Requirements

Applicable How does the deliverable meet this requirement?

Information Content will include topics that address EIT products and EITrelated services. Section 508 must be considered as a requirement on the delivered content to assure that it includes data and/or knowledge appropriate to specific Section 508 accessibility requirements. The specific requirements that apply depend upon the specific type of EIT referred to in the information content as well as the functional performance criteria detailed in 1194.31.

Information Content deliverable is intended to be posted on the agency's a website. Section 508 must be considered as a requirement on the delivered content to assure that it considers the specific Section 508 accessibility requirements detailed in 1194.22 as well as the functional performance criteria detailed in 1194.31.

Information Content deliverable is intended to be made available in a multimedia format by the agency. Section 508 must be considered as a requirement on the delivered content to assure that it considers the specific Section 508 accessibility requirements detailed in 1194.24 as well as the functional performance criteria detailed in 1194.31.

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Labor Hours Deliverable Accessibility Template

Please fill the information below as a part of request for accessibility information of your service deliverable. Vendor Name:________________________________________ Accessibility Information URL (if any):______________________________

NOTE: Section 508 requirements are determined to apply based in part on EIT requirements characterized using the BuyAccessible Wizard. Definite labor hour characteristic requirements are identified by a "yes" in the Applicable column. Possible labor hour characteristic requirements are identified by a "maybe" in the Applicable column.

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Section 508 Service Requirements

Applicable How does the deliverable meet this requirement?

The activity to be performed relates to or requires the use of EIT. Section 508 must be considered as a requirement for the EIT related labor hours activity to assure that it considers specific Section 508 accessibility requirements. The specific requirements that apply depend upon the specific type of EIT related to performing the activity as well as the functional performance criteria detailed in 1194.31