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Metrics exist for Agency Procurement Compliance

This 508 strategic plans seems to want to look forward, without really understanding successful or unsuccessful Section 508 implementation has been in the past. With regard to Federal Agency compliance on EIT procurements, there is over 5 years of data that indicate the government is still struggling to include appropriate and detailed Section 508 requirements into solicitations. In fact government-wide compliance rates are below 50%. GSA and OMB have this data for each agency and it should be available to all. It is eye-opening!

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Submitted by Community Member 1 year ago

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  1. Jim Tobias

    This sounds right to me -- examine the past patterns, if only for rough metrics like how many requests for VPATs, how many VPATs delivered, etc. As we're doing that, let's work on a consensus for refining the metrics.

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  2. 508 Govt Professional

    I’ll bite. This is a great example of how prioritizing on the procurement process has failed. Agencies that use, develop, and maintain accessible E&IT well have done so in a market where few agencies present the proper requirements in solicitations, in, follow up with good evaluations, and if they managed to do those, they then often fail to implement the E&IT in an accessible manner. You want to see a good procurement process? Put a process gate that requires successful testing before projects can go into production. Now the buyer cares about the purchases he/she makes and will be looking for help on how to improve the evaluation of products before they are stuck having to fix them. I voted for this item, and I'd love to see transparency in this area, but it will all be so much smoke and mirrors if the buyers are not motivated through stakeholdership. What I'd really like to see published is a simple metric for each agency: "Do you have processes in place that at least require accessibility defects to be discovered and documented before projects can go to the deployment phase?" Currently most agencies only know about accessibility issue through their complaint process. Isn’t that a little late? You can’t fix what you don’t know is broke.

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