General Information

This page contains links to Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) statements for the Savery Library databases that are compliant with either Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, or W3C WAI WCAG 2.0 Level A.  A VPAT is a vendor generated statement (using a required template from the Federal Government Services Agency (GSA) Government Wide IT Accessibility Program that provides relevant information on how a vendor’s product or service claims to conform to the Section 508 Standards.

The VPAT was designed to provide information on how a product or service conforms to the Section 508 Accessibility Standards (from the U.S. Access Board) for Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) in a consistent fashion and format. In general, vendors should generate a VPAT whenever they develop products or services that are determined to be EIT.

In each VPAT, the vendor is expected to make specific statements, in simple understandable (recommended) language, about how their product or service meets the requirements of the Section 508 Standards (section by section, and paragraph by paragraph).

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