VPAT — LiquidFiles Accessibility Conformance Report
Procurement teams in higher education, US federal agencies and enterprise IT typically ask vendors for an Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) based on the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT). This page describes the LiquidFiles ACR and links to the downloadable document.
The downloadable VPAT is available at the bottom of this page.
What the VPAT Is
The VPAT is a template published by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI). A completed VPAT is called an Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) and documents how a product conforms to major accessibility standards. There are four editions of the VPAT template based on the standard being referenced:
- VPAT 2.5 Rev 508 — Revised U.S. Section 508 standards + WCAG 2.0. Most common for US federal and higher-education procurement.
- VPAT 2.5 Rev WCAG — WCAG 2.2 only.
- VPAT 2.5 Rev EU — EN 301 549 + WCAG 2.1.
- VPAT 2.5 Rev INT — all three combined.
LiquidFiles publishes the Revised Section 508 edition because that is the edition most commonly requested. The underlying WCAG conformance data is equivalent across editions.
Scope & Evaluation Method
The ACR covers the LiquidFiles web interface — the user-facing web UI, the administrative UI and the filedrop forms. The product is delivered as a self-hosted appliance; the web UI is accessed through any modern browser. LiquidFiles does not ship standalone installed software, does not produce electronic documents for end-user consumption, and is not an authoring tool — the Software, Electronic Documents and Authoring Tool columns in the VPAT are therefore marked Not Applicable.
LiquidFiles uses the Bootstrap front-end framework and follows the Bootstrap accessibility guidelines when implementing UI components. Accessibility issues that originate within Bootstrap itself are outside the scope of the LiquidFiles ACR.
Evaluation methods
- Manual accessibility review of the LiquidFiles web UI against each WCAG success criterion.
- Automated code scanning for common accessibility regressions.
- AI-assisted accessibility review of pull requests, starting with LiquidFiles v4.3. The agent scans code changes against WCAG and raises issues during development before they can ship.
- External audits where customer institutions have engaged accessibility consultants; reported issues are fed back into the fix queue.
Summary of Conformance
LiquidFiles targets WCAG 2.1 Level A and Level AA. Level AAA is not covered in the ACR. Summary of conformance against the WCAG 2.0 criteria that the VPAT 2.5 Rev 508 references:
| Level | Criteria | Supports | Partially Supports | Not Applicable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WCAG 2.0 A | 25 | 20 | 0 | 5 (media-only criteria) |
| WCAG 2.0 AA | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 (media-only criteria) |
The Not Applicable entries are for audio and video media criteria — LiquidFiles is a file transfer application and does not play media content. All non-media criteria are Supports in the current release.
Relationship to the Accessibility Statement
LiquidFiles maintains two public accessibility artefacts:
- The Accessibility Statement — a narrative, per-criterion description of how LiquidFiles meets WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA. This is the authoritative source of detail.
- The VPAT / ACR on this page — the same information in the Section 508 procurement format that institutional buyers expect as part of a vendor assessment.
Both are kept in sync. If you are reading the source material as an accessibility reviewer, start with the Accessibility Statement. If you are completing a Section 508 procurement, send the VPAT to your procurement office.
Download ACR
The document is the official ITI VPAT 2.5 Rev 508 template completed with LiquidFiles conformance data. If you need the WCAG-only, EN 301 549 or International editions of the VPAT, please raise a support ticket at support.liquidfiles.com and we will provide the requested edition.
Feedback on any accessibility barriers you encounter is very welcome. Please report them through the support portal above.