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Expert articles on ADA compliance, WCAG standards, Section 508, VPATs, and digital accessibility best practices.

ACCESSIBILITY LAWS Does the CVAA reach your product? Thetest and the FCC filing ADACP
Published: Aug 12, 2026

A chat, voice or video feature can make a software company a covered manufacturer under FCC part 14. The coverage gates, the record clock and the April 1 certificate.

VPAT ACR Where to find a vendor's ACR when thevendor will not send it ADACP
Published: Aug 11, 2026

The GSA ACR Library holds no third-party reports and the ACR Repository sits in staging. Where a reviewer finds a vendor's ACR, and what to file when it never arrives.

SECTION 508 Medicaid systems: the Section 508condition on enhanced FFP ADACP
Published: Aug 10, 2026

Section 508 does not bind a state agency by its own force. 42 CFR 433.112(b)(12) makes it a condition of the 90 and 75 percent Medicaid match, re-tested at reapproval.

ACCESSIBILITY TRAINING Nobody certifies a website: what eachUS accessibility proof means ADACP
Published: Aug 9, 2026

ITI states there is no VPAT certification. What a conformance claim, an ACR, a Trusted Tester certification, a CASp certificate and a vendor badge each actually attest, with citations.

ACCESSIBILITY TESTING Captions, audio description and CARTare separate purchases ADACP
Published: Aug 8, 2026

Captions, audio description and live CART sit in different rules, attach to different units and fail separately. What each contract can specify, cited.

ACCESSIBILITY LAWS LMS course content gets no Title IIexception ADACP
Published: Aug 7, 2026

DOJ proposed two exceptions for password-protected course content, then removed both from the final Title II rule. What survived is narrow, and a syllabus does not qualify.

ACCESSIBILITY TESTING Specify an accessibility audit: scope,sample frame and report ADACP
Published: Aug 6, 2026

WCAG-EM sizes only the random sample, at 10 percent of the structured set. GSA sizes the whole sample with Cochran's formula. Write a statement of work that says which.

ACCESSIBILITY LAWS Is your AI chatbot covered by the ADATitle II web rule? ADACP
Published: Aug 5, 2026

The Title II web rule never says chatbot. It does not have to. Why a vendor assistant is covered web content, and the four contract terms that follow.

VPAT ACR EN 301 549 vs Section 508: the rows a508 ACR does not have ADACP
Published: Aug 4, 2026

The VPAT 508 edition has no row for EN 301 549 clause 8.3.4 or clause 13, and its one real-time text row ships pre-answered. The clause-level delta, from both texts.

WCAG WCAG 3.0 in August 2026: what thedraft says and cannot yet do ADACP
Published: Aug 3, 2026

The 3 March 2026 WCAG 3.0 Working Draft read for procurement: what its status labels admit, what its Bronze level leaves undefined, and what to name in a 2027 contract.

ADA Section 707 covers ATMs. Where doesthat leave your ITM? ADACP
Published: Aug 2, 2026

The 2010 ADA Standards scope Section 707 to ATMs and fare machines, and never define what an ATM is. How to classify a video teller unit, and what a bank documents for one.

ACCESSIBILITY LAWS Equally effective alternate accessplans after April 2027 ADACP
Published: Aug 1, 2026

DOJ was asked to let public entities answer an inaccessible product with equally effective alternative access, and declined. Field by field, what the plan still does.