VPAT Repository

The issue of accessible technology continues to garner attention in all sectors, and the ability to ensure its provision in educational settings is a topic of keen interest among academics, library professionals, and administrators alike. To that end, the CARLI Commercial Products Committee has undertaken a project to collect and make public accessibility documentation from CARLI’s electronic resource providers, specifically the vendors’ VPAT® information, or Voluntary Product Assessment Template®.

The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), self-described as the global voice of the tech sector, is the creator of the VPAT®, which is the “recommended reporting format for enhancing industry-customer communications on ICT product and service conformance with relevant accessibility standards and guidelines.” The VPAT® can be completed in four editions depending on the standards and/or guidelines under consideration: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0; Revised Section 508; EN 301 549; and International.

Because completion of the VPAT® is, as the name implies, voluntary, providers may choose not to complete a VPAT® or not to make it available publicly, or to complete it in such a way as to either modulate insufficiencies or detail them fully along with details about future corrections. A procurement official unfamiliar with the product being considered for purchase might not be able to discern from reviewing a VPAT® whether the product is acceptable from an accessibility standpoint. Due to the discretionary nature of the VPAT®, it can be a useful tool in evaluating a product’s accessibility, but it should not be the sole determining factor in purchasing decisions.

With this information in mind, the CARLI Commercial Products Committee has provided the following list of VPAT® information from its providers, where available.

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ACS Accessibility Statement

Vendor Product Date of Update
ACS ACS Publications 11/2021
AMS VPAT Statement
Vendor Product Date of Update
AMS AMS EJournals Collection 10/12/2022
AMS MathSciNet 9/4/2023
ArtStor Accessibility
Vendor Product Date of Update
ArtStor ArtStor 9/2021

Bloomsbury Collections Accessibility Statement

Vendor Product Date of Update
Bloomsbury ABC-CLIO 8/2022  
Bloomsbury Bloomsbury Publishing Platform 11/2023
 
Vendor Product Date of Update
Chronicle Chronicle of Higher Education 02/2022
Duke Accessibility Policy
Vendor Product Date of Update
Duke All Products 2/2023
EBSCO Accessibility
Vendor Product Date of Update
EBSCO EDS/EBSCOhost (Classic) 1/2023
EBSCO EDS/EBSCOhost (New)  
EBSCO EBSCO eBooks (New) 1/2023
eHRAF Accessibility Statement
Vendor Product Date of Update
eHRAF (Yale) eHRAF World Cultures & eHRAF Archaeology 12/2022
https://support.gale.com/vpats/
Gale Accessibility Information | VPAT Directory
Vendor Product Date of Update
Gale Group Biography and Geneology Master Index (Gale Directory platform) 10/2021
Gale Group Gale Business: DemographicsNOW 3/2021
Gale Group Gale Business: Entrepreneurship 7/2019
Gale Group Gale Business: Insights 11/2022
Gale Group Gale Business: Plan Builder 7/23/2023
Gale Group Gale Health & Wellness 10/2021
Gale Group In Context (Biography, Environmental Studies, Global Issues, Opposing Viewpoints, Science, US History, World History) 8/2022
Gale Group Gale Interactives (Chemistry & Human Anatomy) 3/2020
Gale Group Gale Literature Products (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Lit Finder, Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writer's Online, Twayne's Authors Online, Something About the Author) 8/2022
Gale Group OneFile (Academic OneFile, Book Review Index, Communications & Mass Media, Contemporary Women's Issues, Educator's Reference Complete, Fine Arts, Health & Medicine, Psychology, Religion & Philosophy, War & Terrorism) 7/2022
Gale Group Testing & Education Resource Center / Peterson's Test & Career Prep 3/2020
Project Muse Accessibility Mission Statement
Vendor Product Date of Update
Johns Hopkins University Press All Products (Project Muse) 1/2023
JSTOR Accessibility Policies
Vendor Product Date of Update
JSTOR All Products 12/2023

Kanopy Accessibility Information

Vendor Product Date of Update
Kanopy Kanopy Website 07/2022
LexisNexis Commitment to Accessibility
Vendor Product Date of Update
LexisNexis Nexis-Uni 6/2024
Vendor Product Date of Update
Ovid All Ovid Web Products (5 Minute Consult, Agricola, Joanna Briggs products, Journal collections, Mental Measurements, PsychArticles, PsychBooks, PsychInfo, PsychTests, Visible Body products) 2/8/2023
Ovid Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy:  All Volumes 8/10/2017
Ovid Bates' Visual Guides 7/24/2017
Ovid LWW Nursing & Health Collections products 8/3/2017
Oxford Academic Accessibility Statement (individual products have 
Vendor Product Date of Update
Oxford University Press Oxford Academic 1/6/2023

ProQuest Accessibility Directory

Vendor Product Date of Update
ProQuest Alexander Street Press (Old Platform) 2/2022
ProQuest Alexander Street Press Video (New Platform) 4/15/2024
ProQuest ProQuest Academic All Products 2/2024
ProQuest ProQuest Congressional 8/2021
ProQuest ProQuest Ebook Central 3/19/2024
Sage Accessibility
Vendor Product Date of Update
Sage CQ Press Library 7/2020
Sage CQ Researcher 10/2022
Sage Data Planet 2/2023
Sage All Sage Premier Journals 7/2023
Sage Sage Knowledge 2/2023
SpringerNature Access Commitment
Vendor Product Date of Update
SpringerNature SpringerLink 8/24/2023

Swank

Vendor Product Date of Update
Swank Swank 12/2018
Wiley Accessibility
Vendor Product Date of Update
Wiley All Products 4/2022