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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">This is a <a href="https://www.microassist.com/digital-accessibility/vpat/">
link</a> to explain VPAT (<b>Voluntary Product Accessibility Template). </b>Here is a
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link</a> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#2E74B5">Dana Talley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#2E74B5">LSASD Management Analyst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney@gmail.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 22, 2021 5:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Talley, Dana <Talley.Dana@epa.gov><br>
<b>Cc:</b> texhax@tug.org; Williams, Anthony <Williams.Anthony@epa.gov><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: FW: LaTex Software VPAT Request<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This seems to be a recurrent problem:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftug.org%2Fpipermail%2Ftexhax%2F2017-February%2F022569.html&data=04%7C01%7CTalley.Dana%40epa.gov%7C1523713bb4844917853d08d8ed95a72f%7C88b378b367484867acf976aacbeca6a7%7C0%7C0%7C637520574586979181%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=lkBD%2BcVRKrjxdfqRLQ8Rw3iQQtHlQvwb%2BBMok3AfncA%3D&reserved=0">https://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2017-February/022569.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paulo Ney<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 4:32 PM Talley, Dana via texhax <<a href="mailto:texhax@tug.org">texhax@tug.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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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?<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Dana Talley<br>
LSASD Management Analyst<br>
1200 6th Ave. Ste. 155 MS 14-D12<br>
Seattle, WA, 98101<br>
206-553-8414<br>
360-871-8700 (Page) Lab - Thursdays<br>
360-443-6632 Telework - Fridays<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Frank Mittelbach <<a href="mailto:frank.mittelbach@latex-project.org" target="_blank">frank.mittelbach@latex-project.org</a>>
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Sent: Friday, March 19, 2021 9:17 AM<br>
To: Talley, Dana <<a href="mailto:Talley.Dana@epa.gov" target="_blank">Talley.Dana@epa.gov</a>><br>
Cc: Williams, Anthony <<a href="mailto:Williams.Anthony@epa.gov" target="_blank">Williams.Anthony@epa.gov</a>><br>
Subject: Re: LaTex Software VPAT Request<br>
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Am 19.03.21 um 16:03 schrieb Talley, Dana:<br>
> Hello,<br>
> <br>
> One of our Environmental Protection Agency staff is requesting to <br>
> download LaTex Desktop software to her work laptop. Our IT division <br>
> requires VPAT compliance information on your product. Could you <br>
> provide me with a VPAT for R Studio Desktop software?<br>
<br>
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I'm sorry I have nothing to do with R Studio.<br>
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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.<br>
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LaTeX is distributed for free anybody can download or use it, so there is no "vendor" as such.<br>
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regards<br>
Frank<o:p></o:p></p>
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