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<h2>News Alert</h2>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-12-23-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-12-23-en</a></p>
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<h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;">Request for Proposal for Web Accessibility Assessment for ICANN.org</h2>
<p style="margin: 15px 0px 0px 0px;">23 December 2014</p>
<p>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") is seeking one or more providers to conduct an assessment of website accessibility including ICANN.org and possibly the related subsidiary websites. The selected provider(s) will provide an
initial assessment of ICANN's websites for meeting internationally recognized W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) v2.0 Level AA and include an identification of tools, best practices, processes, and strategy for implementation.</p>
<p>ICANN anticipates a contract to be signed and work to begin no later than March 2015.</p>
<p>One of the goals of the initial assessment is to gain meaningful insight and baseline how ICANN is performing on web accessibility today, to understand what is required to improve, and gain a plan to execute whereby ICANN can measure improvements over a
one-year timeframe. We will engage disability stakeholders to perform testing and validate our approach and perform a follow-on survey one year later, to ensure improvements are allowing disable persons to participate. ICANN is seeking qualified providers
to advise on this set of complex activities in a timely and efficient manner.</p>
<p>A multi-stakeholder review team will make use of the Web Accessibility Assessment to review its impact on participation in ICANN policy and the Internet, and inform recommendations for prioritized remediation areas. The review will also inform recommendations
to ICANN product roadmap for the website and additional initiatives that should be undertaken.</p>
<p>For additional information and instructions for submitting responses please <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rfp-web-accessibility-23dec14-en.zip">
click here</a> [ZIP, 741 KB].</p>
<p>Proposals should be submitted to <a href="mailto:webaccessibility-rfp@icann.org">
webaccessibility-rfp@icann.org</a> by 23:59 UTC on 20 January 2015.</p>
<p><em>RFP timeline at a glance:</em></p>
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<p>RFP published</p>
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<p>23 December 2014</p>
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<p>Participants to indicate interest in submitting RFP</p>
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<p>9 January 2015</p>
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<p><strong>Participants submit any questions to ICANN </strong></p>
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<p><strong>12 January 2015 by 23:59 UTC</strong></p>
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<p>ICANN responds to participant questions</p>
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<p>16 January 2015</p>
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<p><strong>Participant RFP proposals due by</strong></p>
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<p><strong>20 January 2015 by 23:59 UTC</strong></p>
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<p>Target date for selection of vendor</p>
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<p>21 February 2015</p>
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<p>Complete Assessment (Draft, Final) - Target</p>
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<p>31 March 2015 - 30 April 2015</p>
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