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TIBCO and Section 508

The United States Access Board, an independent Federal agency created in 1973 and devoted to insuring accessibility to public accommodations and resources for people with disabilities, has described the purpose of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act as requiring "Federal departments and agencies that develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology to ensure that Federal employees and members of the public with disabilities have access to and use of information and data, comparable to that of the employees and members of the public without disabilities – unless it is an undue burden to do so." (http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/brochure.htm)

TIBCO supports Section 508's goal of a world in which barriers to the use of electronic information technology (EIT) by people with disabilities have been eliminated. A great number of TIBCO's software products, however, typically operate in a back office capacity in conjunction with the enterprise architecture, data backbone, and/or operating system being utilized by the information technology user. As such, these TIBCO products are designed to function in a manner that typically is transparent to the technology end user. Furthermore, the majority of TIBCO's software products are designed to work with most, if not all, current operating systems and their related applications, including web browsers, in a seamless fashion. Therefore, to the extent that an end user's information technology environment contains accessibility features, we believe that most TIBCO's products will neither interfere with nor impair the use of such features by the technology end user.

To help Federal EIT purchasers make educated buying decisions regarding the accessibility features of TIBCO's products, TIBCO has completed Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates, or VPATs, to document how many of its products achieve conformance with applicable accessibility standards under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The VPAT template was developed by the Information Technology Industry Council and is the standard that is used across the software industry to explain how a given product helps comply with each technical provision of Section 508. Please utilize the following link to access TIBCO's completed VPATs. If you are interested in a TIBCO software product for which a VPAT is not found, please contact your TIBCO sales representative.

Completed VPATs


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