Securing VPAT accessibility for your ICT products or services
During your conversations with customers about purchases, do they request voluntary product accessibility template (VPAT) reports? Have you used the appropriate accessibility VPAT to undertake thorough VPAT assessment of the information and communication technology (ICT) products you’re discussing with the customers?
Making sure that your ICT products and services are VPAT accessible positions them to be bought by any potential customer, which is why proactive ICT manufacturers and vendors prioritize having their products or services VPAT-certified so that whenever the chance to procure them arises, a lack of VPAT certification does not prevent them from being bought.
While hiring business consultants to assist them with other significant but non-core criteria like VPAT certification of the ICT, many companies choose to focus on their core business of producing or selling products or services related to their mission.
For instance, VPAT consultations offer an outstanding opportunity for a business or organization to interact with knowledgeable VPAT consultants that have a wealth of expertise working with businesses or organizations that have overcome various challenges that a business or organization may be facing. Working with such consultants delivers practical talent that, in addition to ensuring a company’s compliance with accessibility regulations, can provide insights to assist the company or organization’s other areas of operation run more smoothly.
What are VPAT consultations?
VPAT consultations are formal discussions or interactions between a company or organization and a VPAT consultancy firm or VPAT consultant with the aim of reaching well-informed conclusions regarding guaranteeing VPAT certification of the company’s goods or services.
In order to provide high-level information on the accessibility of an ICT product or service, VPAT consultations are useful since, as a format, any accessibility VPAT is typically as good as any. The only things that businesses and organizations frequently find lacking in the template are a list of each provision and spaces for comments based on the results of an appropriate VPAT evaluation.
Since many vendor VPAT submissions are, to put it bluntly, frequently comically bad and tend to be the target of derision in the procurement offices they are presented to, VPAT discussions are helpful. The mockery typically results from the fact that the VPAT evaluations completed prior to completing the accessibility VPATs are scarcely thorough and do not evaluate every significant aspect of the goods or services.
In fact, this is the reason why some VPAT reports obviously appear to have been rushed. These present chances for a company or organization to take on risks. VPAT consultations help to close these gaps. These open up opportunities for a business or organization to take on risks. VPAT consultations help to seal these loopholes.
Preparing VPAT ACRs requires extensive accessibility expertise
Working with VPAT consultants who have a lot of experience conducting VPAT assessments and producing VPAT reports for well-known accessible brands is necessary if you want to create a VPAT report that won’t damage your company’s or organization’s credibility and reputation.
The majority of the data asked in an accessibility VPAT is highly technical, requiring specialized expertise and experience in accessibility to complete each provision covered by the template. Manufacturers and vendors of ICT products and services should keep this in mind.
Vendors and manufacturers who are aware that their staff might lack the accessibility knowledge and experience necessary to correctly complete the VPAT form can benefit from VPAT consultations. The majority of companies and organizations that win contracts to provide ICT products and services have their VPAT documents created by a VPAT consultancy or a renowned VPAT consultant, according to analyses of VPAT reports that win contracts to supply ICT products and services.
VPAT consultations give assurance of comprehensive assessments
The details offered in an accessibility VPAT typically makes a significant claim about how accessible the entire product or service in question is. This covers the attributes and capabilities of the product or service. A thorough VPAT assessment is usually necessary for the information to be accurate.
Comprehensive VPAT audits need to be performed by someone who is familiar with the accessibility standards outlined in the applicable accessibility VPAT. Because it is widely acknowledged that VPAT assessments carried out by outside accessibility organizations are more reliable and credible than those carried out internally by a company, the majority of buyers of ICT products and services inquire about the VPAT consulting firm that carried out the VPAT audit for a product or service.
Hire a VPAT consulting agency to boost your VPAT certification
Don’t let doubts about the credibility of your VPAT report deny you the chance of being awarded contracts to supply ICT products or services. Let our VPAT consultants help you secure that dream contract by assisting you in conducting a VPAT assessment of your product or service as well as completing your VPAT report. Call (626) 486-2201 to find out more about Our VPAT Consultations and how we can help you win that dream contract to supply ICT products or services.
