The Vendor is required to provide to ensuring that all citizens, including individuals with disabilities, can access and engage fully with its digital content, applications, and public information.
- Provide to bring all public-facing web properties and related content into compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA.
- Recognizes that modern artificial intelligence and automation technologies have fundamentally changed the economics and efficiency of digital accessibility compliance.
- Research and real-world implementation demonstrate that an AI-assisted approach to accessibility auditing, remediation, and verification can reduce costs by 50–80% compared to traditional fully manual methods, while maintaining or improving quality outcomes.
- Accordingly, this RFP requires offerors to incorporate AI and automation tools as core components of their proposed solution, with human expertise focused where it delivers the most value: validation, complex judgment calls, and legal sign-off.
- Must employ a three-layer AI assisted compliance model that leverages automated detection, AI-driven remediation, and targeted human validation to maximize quality while minimizing cost and labor hours.
- AI-Assisted Compliance Model
• Agency requires the selected offeror to structure their approach around a three-layer compliance model that integrates artificial intelligence and automation at every feasible stage. This model is designed to drive down costs, accelerate timelines, and focus human expertise where it matters most.
- Automated Detection
• Missing or incorrect alt attributes
• Color contrast failures
• Missing form labels
• ARIA misuse
• Heading structure problems
• Empty links and buttons
• Keyboard focus traps
• Duplicate IDs
• Missing language attributes
- AI-Driven Remediation
• Generate accurate, context-aware alt text for images
• Rewrite button and link labels for clarity and accessibility
• Fix heading hierarchy violations
• Suggest and implement semantic HTML replacements
• Improve form instructions and error messages for accessibility
• Detect and explain WCAG violations in plain English for developer consumption
• Auto-generate accessible document structures for PDFs, Word files, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations
- Human Validation
• Screen reader experience testing across multiple platforms
• Keyboard-only workflow validation
• Cognitive clarity and readability assessment
• Complex data visualization accessibility review
• Legal compliance sign-off and conformance certification.
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