FW: LaTex Software VPAT Request

[Talley, Dana]

Hello,

This is a link<https://www.microassist.com/digital-accessibility/vpat/> to explain VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template). Here is a link<https://www.pdffiller.com/jsfiller-desk10/?projectId=605a017e2f9a71592e01ec10&lp=true#6e9f6ef4a4114976b57cd23ea2f89e60> to a VPAT template that can be filled out online. It has definitions of all the section 508 criteria. This is information that all federal, state, and educational institutions in the United States will require prior to downloading your software products.

Thank you for your help with this.

Sincerely,
Dana Talley
LSASD Management Analyst
1200 6th Ave. Ste. 155 MS 14-D12
Seattle, WA, 98101
206-553-8414
360-871-8700 (Page) Lab - Thursdays
360-443-6632 Telework - Fridays
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From: Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2021 5:49 PM
To: Talley, Dana <Talley.Dana at epa.gov>
Cc: texhax at tug.org; Williams, Anthony <Williams.Anthony at epa.gov>
Subject: Re: FW: LaTex Software VPAT Request

This seems to be a recurrent problem:

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Paulo Ney

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 4:32 PM Talley, Dana via texhax <texhax at tug.org<mailto:texhax at tug.org>> wrote:
Hello,

One of our Environmental Protection Agency staff is requesting to download LaTex Desktop software to her work laptop. Our IT division requires VPAT compliance information on your product. Could you provide me with a VPAT for R Studio Desktop software?

Sincerely,
Dana Talley
LSASD Management Analyst
1200 6th Ave. Ste. 155 MS 14-D12
Seattle, WA, 98101
206-553-8414
360-871-8700 (Page) Lab - Thursdays
360-443-6632 Telework - Fridays



-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Mittelbach <frank.mittelbach at latex-project.org<mailto:frank.mittelbach at latex-project.org>>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2021 9:17 AM
To: Talley, Dana <Talley.Dana at epa.gov<mailto:Talley.Dana at epa.gov>>
Cc: Williams, Anthony <Williams.Anthony at epa.gov<mailto:Williams.Anthony at epa.gov>>
Subject: Re: LaTex Software VPAT Request

Am 19.03.21 um 16:03 schrieb Talley, Dana:
> Hello,
>
> One of our Environmental Protection Agency staff is requesting to
> download LaTex Desktop software to her work laptop. Our IT division
> requires VPAT compliance information on your product. Could you
> provide me with a VPAT for R Studio Desktop software?


I'm sorry I have nothing to do with R Studio.

We develop LaTeX as a free open source solution, but we are not even the people packaging or distributing it and we aren't providing any VPAT compliance information about LaTeX and there is none to the best of my knowledge.

LaTeX is distributed for free anybody can download or use it, so there is no "vendor" as such.

regards
Frank
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