<div dir="ltr"><div>It'd be nice if, when comparing multiple VPATs, you could get a "score" and then just choose the highest score but it doesn't work like that.</div><div><br></div><div>You could potentially tally up the number of "supports", "partially supports" and "does not support" values and maybe create a score. But a VPAT with a lot of "partially supports" might actually be more accessible than a product with a lot of "supports" if the latter also has a lot of "does not support". The "not applicable" values should count against a product.<br></div><div><br></div><div>With a WCAG 2.1 VPAT/ACR, you should have 30 rows in the A table and 20 rows in the AA tables (50 combined).</div><div><br></div><div>Suppose the VPAT has 25 "supports", 15 "partially supports", 7 "does not support", and 3 "not applicable". Is that a 50% score? 25 "supports" out of a total of 50? The "partially supports" should also help the "score".</div><div><br></div><div>It's a tough call. Ideally, the product with the most "supports" and "partially supports" should win.</div><div><br></div><div>But you might have to evaluate the "does not support" items. It could be that the parts that aren't supported are in a part of the product that you won't be using, so the fact that it doesn't work doesn't matter.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Sometimes you have to pick the product that is "least worst". That is, all the VPATs could be bad but if that's all you have to choose from, try to use the one that sucks the least. But hopefully if that happens, you have the option of choosing none of them and doing more research for other products.</div><div><br></div><div>Glen</div><div></div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/glen-walker/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/glen-walker/</a></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 11:08 AM Normajean.Brand <<a href="mailto:normajean.brand@hccs.edu">normajean.brand@hccs.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,56,100)">When looking at a VPAT (and I’m not sure I’m even asking the question correctly), what would be the baseline of acceptable accessibility – 75%, 85%, or something
else – as to whether your college would accept and vet a product for use? I know we would all like for products to be 100% accessible, but what is your baseline?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,56,100)">I hope this makes sense, because I was asked by an academic department looking at procuring new software, what would be acceptable.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Verdana Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,56,100)">Thanks for your insight,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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