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On Shape Section 508 Accessibility Compliance

paul_wanishpaul_wanish Member Posts: 8 EDU
in Product Feedback
Accessibility and ADA compliance is very important to School Districts, as government agencies.
"ptc" has listed Creo, Windchill, Arbortext, ThingWorx Navigate, each as completing the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT).
Did I miss On Shape, they don't comply or it's on the way (when)???


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  • john_rousseaujohn_rousseau Member, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 410
    Onshape is currently working with a highly-respected institution to audit our accessibility and provide a VPAT. It's coming soon.
    John Rousseau / VP, Technical Operations / Onshape Inc.
  • paul_wanishpaul_wanish Member Posts: 8 EDU
    Thanks John. We're a district of 35K pupils, so enabling On Shape to the students is dependent on this.
    Thank COVID for digitally enable ALL students equally with Chromebooks, and strong push for STEM (and VEX).
    Can you sign up to be (e-mail) notified??
  • paul_wanishpaul_wanish Member Posts: 8 EDU
    Thanks John. We're a district of 35K pupils, so enabling On Shape to the students is dependent on this.
    Thank COVID for digitally enable ALL students equally with Chromebooks, and strong push for STEM (and VEX).
    Can people sign up to be (e-mail) notified?? (You do so much to extend On Shape, I'm afraid I'll miss it!!!!) :)
  • AlexMaassAlexMaass Member Posts: 2 EDU
    john_rousseau said:
    Onshape is currently working with a highly-respected institution to audit our accessibility and provide a VPAT. It's coming soon.
    Are they going to add dark mode? It's a pretty basic accessibility feature that is still not provided, people have been requesting it for years.
  • chris_schmitz387chris_schmitz387 Member Posts: 2 ✭
    https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/89904#Comment_89904

    Are there any updates to this? My district is forcing to remove OnShape access with out this to comply with our new state accessibility laws, unless I can provide a VPAT.

  • john_rousseaujohn_rousseau Member, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 410

    Hi @chris_schmitz387. We have a VPAT that was authored by the Perkins School for the Blind in 2023. We have not updated it since and it points out quite a few areas for improvement.

    If you want a copy of our VPAT, please send an email to onshape-compliance@ptc.com and we will send it to you.

    John Rousseau / VP, Technical Operations / Onshape Inc.
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