procurement
Anatomy of an accessibility-aware RFP: real procurement language teardown
Five anonymised RFP accessibility sections, clause by clause — federal, US state, EU member-state, Fortune 500, and the typical boilerplate.
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EN 301 549 explained — the EU's accessibility standard
EN 301 549 — the ETSI harmonised European standard that turns WCAG 2.1 AA into procurement-binding text. V3.2.1 is in force in 2026; V4 incorporating WCAG 2.2 is in late-stage drafting. Full clause-by-clause primer.
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Profile: how one EU public-sector procurement officer enforces EN 301 549
A composite portrait of an EU member-state procurement officer who turns EN 301 549 from a referenced standard into rejected tenders, demanded evidence and post-award remediation clauses. Drawn from interviews with seven officers across five member states; identifying details anonymised.
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Section 508 in 2026: where the refresh landed and what's still pending
Nine years after the 2017 refresh harmonised Section 508 with WCAG 2.0 AA, the standard is overdue for a WCAG 2.2 update, an AI-procurement scope expansion, and the Access Board's 2025 RFI is finally surfacing what comes next.
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WCAG 2.2 adoption rate: where the recommendation has and hasn't entered law, procurement, and audit practice — a 2026 survey
Two-and-a-half years after the W3C published WCAG 2.2, only a fraction of legal references that previously cited 2.0 or 2.1 have updated. The 9 new SCs are where the gap shows — focus appearance, target size, dragging, redundant entry, accessible auth.