FW: LaTex Software VPAT Request

[Dr Alan Litchfield]

Interesting. I had to Google VPAT compliance since, not being in the US, 
it has no relevance to my existence :)

I wonder how governments deal with actual democratic systems ;)

Good luck

Alan

On 23/03/21 1:49 pm, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
> This seems to be a recurrent problem:
>
> https://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2017-February/022569.html 
> <https://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2017-February/022569.html>
>
> 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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Dr Alan Litchfield
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