<div>Dear community,</div>
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<div>I was able to locate an existing VPAT (for government accreditation of QGIS) but have a couple of questions that I was hoping someone could help me with.  </div>
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<div>regarding answers provided to these requirements:</div>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt">(a) When software is designed to run on a system that has a keyboard, product functions shall be executable from a keyboard where the function itself or the result of performing a function can be discerned textually.</span></p></td>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt">(b) Applications shall not disrupt or disable activated features of other products that are identified as accessibility features, where those features are developed and documented according to industry standards. Applications also shall not disrupt or disable activated features of any operating system that are identified as accessibility features where the application programming interface for those accessibility features has been documented by the manufacturer of the operating system and is available to the product developer.</span></p></td>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT:normal;MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt">(c) A well-defined on-screen indication of the current focus shall be provided that moves among interactive interface elements as the input focus changes. The focus shall be programmatically exposed so that Assistive Technology can track focus and focus changes.</span></p></td>
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<div>Questions: 
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">1194.21 (c )- Please explain this remark.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d"></span><span style="COLOR:#1f497d"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">1194.41 (a, b and c) what are the exceptions?</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Many thanks to anyone who can help me answer these two questions,</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Leslie T</font></font></span></p></div>