ACP Services: VPAT Service Offering
VPAT Services
HiSoftware is an industry leader in optimizing the process and content of voluntary
product accessibility templates (VPATs). We are currently the only company chosen
to coordinate the VPAT XML process for private industry and the Federal government—and
we are leading the way for the future of the VPAT process.
Optimizing VPAT Processes for Accuracy, Speed, and Repeatability
Some of the world’s largest software companies have asked our team to help
them optimize their VPAT processes to meet their company’s specific needs.
This provides an immediate return on investment (ROI) because it helps them win
new sales and improve customer loyalty. It also makes internal VPATs processes effortless
by flattening the learning curve and reducing pushback. This work typically includes:
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Targeted Government Customer Input
-Because our team members have spent countless hours working alongside government
procurement executives, we can easily convene focus groups that identify where your
company’s VPATs can be improved.
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Response Flowcharts
- Working with your product teams, we apply our expertise to develop flowcharts
that make it very easy for your product teams to identify their responses.
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Template-Based Responses
- To further ensure repeatability and objectivity, we can develop tailored templates
that dovetail with the response flowcharts. This gives our customers:
- Tight management of exact wording of VPATs
- Easy migration to new VPAT policies
- Reduced pushback by flattening the learning curve
- Most importantly, content specifically tailored to customer needs.
VPAT Authoring
Many of our customers are either smaller companies that cannot justify a comprehensive
VPAT approach or larger companies needing a better VPAT to promote a particular
product. In these cases, we use a standardized flowchart and template approach,
either in combination with application or web content assessment services to easily
and quickly provide our customers with VPATs that are objective, repeatable, and
highly-tailored to the needs of government buyers.
Proven VPAT Experience
HiSoftware’s VPAT services leverages our experience both in helping organizations
refine their own VPAT processes and driving the VPAT model with our partners in
industry and government. The HiSoftware team includes some of most respected IT
and policy professionals in the accessibility field. If your product group is interested
in learning more about HiSoftware’s VPAT services contact us today.
For additional background information about VPATs visit
http://www.ITIC.org
.