<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Thomas,</div><div><br></div><div>The QGIS community and PSC would certainly welcome such an initiative. However, no-one on the PSC/board is based in the US.</div><div><br></div><div>Is that something that has to be renewed for every release? Perhaps it would be done only for LTR versions?</div><div><br></div><div>If you know a university institute based in the US that could work on this, please put us in touch !</div><div><br></div><div>Also: what would / should happen in your opinion if the work on the conformance document would reveal major issues with QGIS in the accessibility respect? We are largely dependent on upstream libraries (mainly Qt in our example) - so we are basically inheriting all of the strengths and weaknesses of Qt ...<br></div><div><br></div><div>Also, it might be worth a discussion with the US QGIS user group - such conformance documents are typically only valid in one single country - so it would be kind of the responsibility of a local user group to work on such documents. Of course the international project can support this effort - but the initiative should primarily come from the country user group that wants to get such a conformance document for their country.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your reply,</div><div>Andreas<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 31 May 2022 at 18:05, Thomas, Robert - FS via QGIS-Developer <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</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">A number of years ago, there was an effort to complete the Section 508/EEN 301 549 Accessibility Conformance documentation (i.e. Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)) for QGIS;
is there a part of the developer/tech support community interested in completing these?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My thought is if there may be some Computer Science or Geo students where their program covers testing and conformance as a part of their developer program curriculum, then they could use QGIS testing and reporting as a part of a class
project? A long term relationship with that University could make regular updates sustainable.
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is lots of good information and resources, including the Template
<a href="https://www.section508.gov/" target="_blank">here</a> < <a href="https://www.section508.gov/" target="_blank">
Home | Section508.gov</a>>. The last time I posted, the message was held up by moderator approval, hopefully this time my message can reach you all.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Having compliance reports adds to QGIS and other open source software increased legitimacy and would allow the use by more governmental organization that need to meet their procurement requirements. Other thoughts, ideals or volunteers
to lead a working group?? Thanks for the consideration. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
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