[Rd] Possible VPAT for R?

[Lemon, James]

Hello,

Our university administration, in accordance with State and Federal law, have begun collecting VPATs with WCAG 2.1/2.2 (https://www.itic.org/policy/accessibility/vpat, https://www.wcag.com/solutions/vpat-accessibility-documentation/) for the software we use in the Library (primarily public-use, but faculty as well), and will be mandatory by April 2026 to conform to Section 508 (https://www.section508.gov/).

We would like to continue including R in our public image, but without a VPAT we will have no choice but to remove it before April 2026. We are contacting you in hopes that this is something that your company could provide in the near future, as no doubt other educational and public institutions have or will soon have the same requirements for their software.

Here are some examples if they help:
https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/compliance.html
https://belonging.google/accessibility-conformance-reports/
https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115000637784-Do-you-have-Voluntary-Product-Accessibility-Templates-VPATs
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/conformance-reports
https://www.phpkb.com/vpat

Thanks,


James Lemon

Senior IT Support Technician

Library Technology Management Services

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