Procurement Guidance Analysis
This page explores if EOWG might want to develop a procurement resource.
Considerations
EOWG participants please add your thoughts below, with [your name]
General
- More resources about how to embed accessible procurement processes/the realities of procurement (Jade)
- Other organizations have done a lot on procurement and it's out there publicly. Let's not reinvent the wheel. Find out what resources exist that we might want to point to as appropriate. [from 18 Aug meeting]
- If linking to others, we need to have specific parameters about what we link to or not. [from 18 Aug meeting]
- Perhaps quick tips and pointers to others for more robust guidance? [from 18 Aug meeting]
- Most resources cover the perfect situation. What to do when no products are fully accessible? [from 18 Aug meeting]
- Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility, an ancient EO resource addressed a little of this for authoring tools
- The CAUDIT Waypoints in the process of Accessible Procurement considers this in the section on 'What if the procured ICT isn’t fully accessible'
- Potential wording for listing external resources (pulled from SC). "Resources are for information purposes only, no endorsement is implied." (KAK)
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What the resource might address
- How do you score accessibility for a product? [from 18 Aug meeting]
- Practical procurement process? [from 18 Aug meeting]
- How do you advocate for a 3rd party to put accessibility on the roadmap? [from 18 Aug meeting]
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Existing Resources
EOWG participants: Please add others below. Also, feel free to add comments on the resources in the first list, e.g., if they have limited applicability — keeping in mind this is a public page and W3C is vendor neutral.
Free resources not from vendors:
- A Procure Access Resource, Disability:IN 2022
- Building Accessibility into Your Procurement Process, Buy Accessible Products and Services, Accessibility Requirements Tool (ART) — Section 508
- Accessible IT Procurement implementation guide, Australian collaboration hosted by CAUDIT
- Accessible Technology Procurement, Harvard University
- Buy IT!, Peat
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Others - from vendors, not free, etc.:
- 10 tips for accessible procurement, "Download our digital accessibility procurement guide", AbilityNet 2023
- IT Procurement Toolkit , universaldesign.ie