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General Services Administration
Policy, the Procurement Process and Purchasing
Section 508 Products ServicesSection 508 and
the Buy Accessible Wizard
Helen ChamberlainOffice of Governmentwide
PolicyIT Accessibility Workforce Division
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Why is Section 508 Important?
  • Section 508 creates binding and enforceable
    provisions and incorporates these provisions into
    the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR).
  • Section 508 technical provisions need to be used
    in all electronic and information technology
    (EIT) acquisitions of products and services.

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Why is Section 508 Important?
  • Eliminates barriers for people with disabilities
  • Supports Federal initiatives
  • Benefits everyone
  • Achieves legal compliance
  • Promotes positive public image and facilitates
    public access to Federal information
  • Its the law!

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What does Section 508 Apply To?
  • Section 508 applies to ALL contract vehicles and
    procurement actions, including micro-purchases.
  • All EIT that is procured, maintained, developed,
    or used

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Who does Section 508 Apply To?
  • Section 508 applies to the Federal Government and
    the US Postal Service

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What Are Agencies Required To Do?
  • Agencies are responsible for Section 508
    compliance, not industry
  • Agencies must determine if and how the Section
    508 Standard applies, not industry
  • Agencies must conduct accessibility market
    research, not just pick a product
  • Agencies must reflect their Section 508
    requirements in acquisition solicitations

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Section 508 Policy
  • Section 508 Refresh
  • FAR
  • Procurement
  • Section 508 Due Diligence
  • OMB Directives
  • Buy Accessible Wizard Tool
  • Section 508 Assessments

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How Well Are Federal Agencies Implementing
Section 508?
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What is the Buy Accessible Wizard?
  • The Buy Accessible Wizard is a web-based tool
    that
  • Guides users through the acquisition process,
    gathering data and providing information about
    electronic and information technology (EIT) and
    Section 508 compliance
  • Compiles a running summary documenting the
    process and its results
  • The Buy Accessible Products and Services
    Directory
  • Access to vendor provided accessibility
    information
  • The Buy Accessible System makes compliance with
    the requirements of Section 508 as easy and
    thorough as possible

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Who Should Use the Wizard?
  • Micro purchasers (IT) with government purchase
    cards
  • Program technical specialists (IT) that determine
    acquisition requirements
  • Program requirements officer responsible for
    program requirements documentation development,
    consolidation
  • Contract officers that specify (IT) requirements
    on behalf of agency programs

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Market Research Why do it?
  • FAR Requirement
  • Used to gauge the state of the EIT industry in
    meeting your requirements with products and
    services
  • Method for identifying products that claim to
    meet section 508 requirements

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Questions for Market Research
  • How well does the product/vendor meet
  • Functional and technical requirements?
  • Applicable section 508 standards?
  • Ability to meet deliverable schedule
  • Cost considerations?
  • What test approaches does the vendor use to
    assure compliance?

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What Are You Buying?
  • Product
  • Commercial off-the shelf (COTS)
  • In-house IT development or customization
  • Government off-the-shelf (GOTS)
  • Services
  • Integration
  • Training
  • Design and development
  • Audio-visual/Multimedia
  • Maintenance
  • Help Desk
  • Documentation
  • Combination

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Buy Accessible System Release 3 offers
significant enhancements over the previous
production Release 2
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New Wizard Release 3 Functionality
  • Enhanced Reporting and additional support for the
    critical task of solicitation documentation
  • Significant Usability and Security enhancements
  • Buy Accessible System Release 3 has security
    Certification and Accreditation (CA) from GSA
  • For Registered Agencies, Wizard R3 provides
    management support for
  • user authentication
  • user partitioning for data visibility, i.e.
    establishing data sharing groups
  • aggregate data management and reporting

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How Can the Wizard Help Your Agency?
  • Standardize the process you use for each
    acquisition.
  • Document your procedures to demonstrate due
    diligence
  • Maximize market research. Use vendor-supplied
    accessibility information about the commercial
    availability of accessible EIT products and
    services prior to solicitation.
  • Tailor your solicitations. Ensure there is
    specific Section 508 language in each
    solicitation that includes EIT.
  • Require accessibility information.
  • Document accessibility as a factor in source
    selection
  • Document accessibility as a factor in inspection
    and acceptance

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Getting Started
  • Anyone can be a guest user on the public Wizard
    hosted at GSA but in addition with Wizard R3
  • Agencies may also register with GSA to utilize
    secure database storage and manage their own
    Wizard users
  • Benefits
  • Individual user ID and passwords
  • Save Wizard sessions to resume or re-use
  • Share data with other users as appropriate
  • Repository of Section 508 compliance
    documentation
  • Management reporting over summary results

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Be Our Guest for a Test Drive
  • We invite you to test drive the Buy Accessible
    Wizard Release 3
  • To access the Buy Accessible Wizard Release 3 go
    to http//www.buyaccessible.gov/ and use the
    Guest User login

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Thank you
  • Contact Information
  • Terry Weaver terry.weaver_at_gsa.gov
  • Helen Chamberlain helen.chamberlain_at_gsa.gov
  • Bill Hetzner bill.hetzner_at_newvectors.net
  • Jim Kindrick jim.kindrick_at_newvectors.net

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Decisions to make for R3
  • Decide if your agency wants to register with GSA
    or use the Wizard as guests
  • Identify an individual (or set of individuals)
    who will act as the Wizard administrator
  • Decide who are the Wizard users in your agency to
    be registered

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Decisions to make for R3
  • Decide if the Wizard user base should be
    organized into separate groups
  • Based on geography location e.g. DC office, St.
    Louis office,
  • Based on functional division e.g. IRS, OCC,
    OTS, Mint,
  • Based on contracting office

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Decisions to make for R3
  • Identify an individual who will act as the
    administrator for each group
  • Decide if and what use metrics the administrator
    will track / report on (and to who)
  • Identify the kind of aggregate acquisition
    reports your agency would like to produce

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Making the Most of New Features
  • Enhanced Reporting using the GPAT and suggested
    solicitation language
  • Government Product/Service Accessibility Template
    (GPAT)
  • Specific requirements and vendor information
  • Solicitation Template
  • Suggested language for applicable solicitation
    checklist items

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Enhanced Reporting
  • Solicitation Documentation
  • GPAT
  • Detailed Solicitation Checklist items
  • Program Need, Product Requirements, Service
    Requirements, Evaluation Factors, and deliverable
    Acceptance Criteria
  • Summary Solicitation Checklist and documentation
    reporting options
  • suggested language in Solicitation Template

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Making the Most of New Features
  • Enhanced Reporting Supplemental Guides for
    post-solicitation support
  • Evaluation Guide GPAT with market research
    commercial availability results
  • Acceptance Guide generally accepted inspection
    and test methods for conformance
  • Design Guide qualified development resources

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Making the Most of New Features
  • Simplified Search easier access to vendor
    provided accessibility information
  • Usability enhancements for accessing the Buy
    Accessible Products and Services Directory

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Simplified Search
  • Easier access to vendor provided information
  • Usability enhancements for accessing the Buy
    Accessible Products and Services Directory
  • Simplified keyword and category display
  • Refine search by category
  • Select category displays sub-categories or
    launches search
  • Search results for market research review
  • Market research documentation

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Making the Most of New Features
  • Secure Wizard Data Storage
  • Agencies manage users and aggregate user data
  • Individual user id and password, Management
    reporting agency usage
  • Users save Wizard data to agency-specific
    database at GSA
  • Secure, re-usable, and share-able
  • What can you do to help your agency prepare?

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Secure Wizard Data Storage
  • Registered agencies manage users and aggregate
    user data,
  • Users save Wizard data to agency-specific
    database at GSA
  • Guest user login screen
  • Registered user login screen
  • Registered user MyBuyAccessible console with
    saved sessions and shared data from group members
  • Agency administrator console
  • Agency administrator use(r) metrics
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