Notice ID: 36C10B21Q0190
“The VA Section 508 Office is responsible for determining the accessibility compliance levels of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) developed, procured, maintained, or used by VA. Part of this role is to assess the accessibility compliance level of web sites and applications in development and sustainment, and various software platforms or collaboration environments/tools. The tool the Section 508 Office is seeking will be used by Section 508 government employees and contractors as well as teams working in VA development or sustainment, and VA webmasters and content providers. Scope of this testing includes annual totals of approximately 60 applications (databases and logins) ranging from small to extremely large; 11,200 web sites (simple sites or sites with basic downloadable content); 100 varied content (e.g., PDFs, video content, non-web content, MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents); 50 mobile applications; and 600 eLearning courses. Optional testing may include up to approximately 360 SharePoint sites annually. Approximate Scope reflects only distinct items; required subsequent retesting is not included in above numbers, and an item may be tested multiple times during the year. Sites which government requests scanned but subsequently cannot be scanned are also not included in counts. Steady growth and occasional surges in scope are anticipated year-over-year.”
“4.0 SYNOPSIS OF REQUIREMENTS:
- 1 GENERAL
- All parts of tool or tool suite including administrative functionalities and plug-ins/browser extensions will be 508-compliant and accessible without further development (“configurable out of the box”)…
- 2 Automated testing
- Automated testing will be available. Tests will be configurable and able to be set to run immediately or at a specific time in the future. This capability will be available to all users employing Tool…
- 3 Manual testing
- Manual testing may be used in conjunction with automated testing as a means of finding defects not found during automated testing and thereby providing a more robust assessment of a software technology…
- 4 Portable Document Format (PDF) Specific
- The automated test capability will be able to run against standard environments and web platforms, including stand-alone PDF and PDF documents embedded in ICT…
- 5 Reporting
- Tool will be able to view and export reports to spreadsheet or Comma-Separated Value (CSV) files, in accessible format. Data will be exportable to VA government locations…
- 6 DASHBOARD
- Tool will provide an online Graphical User Interface (GUI) Dashboard for presentation of defect information as described below…
- 7 TOOL TRAINING
- Contractor will provide training on the accessibility Scanning Tool or tool suite by creating three (3) courses on the use of Tool…
- 8 HELP DESK
- Contractor will provide help desk support for the accessibility Scanning Tool or tool suite for all technologies, projects, environments, and media types under this contract…”
