Section 508 Compliance Reports Available

Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998, which covers access to federally funded programs and services, strengthens Section 508 of the Act, requiring federal agencies to purchase electronic and information technology that is accessible except where it would cause an “undue burden.”

An upshot has been that the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), a trade association representing U.S. information technology products and services providers, committed to helping the federal government implement Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. In 2001, ITI partnered with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to create a simple, Internet-based tool to assist federal contracting and procurement officials in fulfilling the new market research requirements contained in the Section 508 implementing regulations.

The result: the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, or VPAT. Vendors who want to support Section 508 standards have the option of voluntarily posting VPATs on GSA’s Buy Accessible Web site (www.section508.gov) as well as their own Web sites.

IntelliTools’ VPAT Reports can be downloaded for for each of its products:

(You will need Adobe Acrobat reader to open the files)

Reading
IntelliTools Reading: Balanced Literacy (.pdf)

Classroom Suite
Classroom Suite (.pdf)

ReadyMade Curriculum Activities
Primary Writing (.pdf)
Primary Literacy (.pdf)

Math
MathPad and MathPad Plus (.pdf)
Number Concepts 1 and Number Concepts 2 (.pdf)

Computer Access
IntelliKeys USB (.pdf)
Overlay Maker (.pdf)

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