VPAT & ACR guides
- What is a VPAT? — A VPAT is the template; a completed VPAT is an Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR). What it covers, who asks for it, and how to fill one out.
- VPAT vs ACR — what's the difference? — VPAT is the blank template; ACR is the completed report. Why the terms get used interchangeably and which one a buyer is actually asking for.
- How to fill out a VPAT 2.5 — A practical walkthrough of completing a VPAT 2.5: front matter, conformance levels, writing useful remarks, and exporting a clean ACR.
- Producing a Section 508 compliance report — How to produce a Section 508 ACR: the functional performance, hardware, software and documentation chapters, plus the WCAG 2.0 baseline they incorporate.
- VPAT for the EU: EN 301 549 and the EAA — What the European Accessibility Act and EN 301 549 mean for vendors, and how a VPAT/ACR maps to European accessibility procurement requirements.
- Answering the VPAT requirement in a government RFP — How to attach an accessibility conformance report to a government RFP response, what reviewers check, and the mistakes that disqualify vendors.