The proof procurement asks for.
When a buyer asks for your VPAT, they’re asking a fair question: can everyone use what you’re selling? A VPAT (the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) is the standard way to answer, and once it’s filled out it earns a second name: an Accessibility Conformance Report, or ACR. We prepare yours from real testing, and we walk you through every line of it.
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- VPAT the blank form
- ACR the form, filled out
First, the two acronyms
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VPAT
The blank form. The Voluntary Product Accessibility Template is published by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), the trade association much of the tech industry belongs to. It lists every accessibility requirement a buyer might care about and asks the same question of each: does your product meet it?
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ACR
The form, filled out. With every answer in place, the template becomes an Accessibility Conformance Report: the document your buyer actually reads. Most people say “VPAT” for both, the way a filled-out application is still called an application. Use whichever name you like; we always know what you mean.
The distinction matters in exactly one place: the thing procurement needs is the completed report, with honest answers and evidence behind them. That’s the one we build.
Where the answers come from
Every answer traces to a tested finding.
The template asks the same question of every requirement in scope, most of them success criteria from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and accepts three honest answers: Supports, Partially Supports, and Does Not Support. The middle answer carries more weight than you might expect. Procurement reads a candid Partially Supports, with a remark explaining the gap and the fix underway, as the mark of a vendor who actually tested. A page of nothing but Supports gets read twice.
That’s why our VPATs come after an audit, never from a self-assessment questionnaire. Each answer in your ACR is backed by what our auditors found by hand: the finding, the evidence, the remark. If you haven’t been audited yet, that’s simply where we start; see how an audit runs, and the VPAT follows from it.
An excerpt from an ACR, showing the format. A finished report answers every criterion in the chosen edition this way.
| Criteria | Conformance level | Remarks and explanations |
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| 1.1.1 Non-text Content (Level A) | Supports | Images carry text alternatives throughout; decorative images are hidden from assistive technology. |
| 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) (Level AA) | Supports | Text meets the required contrast ratios across the product, including form hints and error states. |
| 2.1.1 Keyboard (Level A) | Partially Supports | The date picker in checkout cannot be operated by keyboard alone; a fix is scheduled. Keyboard users can type the date directly meanwhile. |
One template, four editions
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WCAG edition
Measures against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines alone. The broadest edition, and the right one when buyers simply want to know the product is accessible.
$750 -
508 edition
Adds Section 508, the law that governs technology bought by the United States federal government. The edition federal agencies and their vendors ask for.
$950 -
EU edition
Adds EN 301 549, the European accessibility standard used in public procurement across the European Union.
$950 -
INT edition
The international edition: everything above in one document, for products sold into more than one market.
$1,500
What buyers do with it
Procurement reads these for a living.
Government and education buyers are often required to collect an ACR before they can sign, and enterprise procurement checklists ask for one by name. Having yours ready means the request stops being a scramble and becomes an attachment.
Plenty of companies go a step further and publish their ACR right on their site, beside their accessibility statement. It answers the question before anyone asks it, and it tells every visitor the product takes this seriously. When yours is ready, we’d encourage you to do the same.
The price
A finished ACR starts at $750.
Fixed per edition, because the editions differ in work. The WCAG edition is $750; adding Section 508 or EN 301 549 makes it $950, and the international edition, which folds in all three standards, is $1,500. Every fee covers the completed report, filled out from your audit’s findings, ready to send or publish, and we walk your team through it first.
It does assume an audit to draw from, because every answer needs evidence behind it. If you haven’t had one yet, we’ll start there: one proposal covers both, and you’ll know the whole cost before anything begins.
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