Sakai has been committed to delivering a product that meets and exceeds standards for accessibility.  This is particularly important as access for all to an education is a basic human right.  

About five years ago, Sakai decided to try to take its commitment to accessibility to the next level.  By hiring a accessibility lead who is legally blind to improve accessibility of both the Sakai product as well as the Sakai community meetings, communications, and processes. Further efforts included training developers on accessibility testing tools and hiring an Indian team of blind and low vision staff to do continuous quality assurance and accessibility testing.  As our skill and investment increased, we decided to create our own VPAT for Sakai-23.  

We worked with an accessibility lead at University of Michigan to iterate with us to help us create an outstanding VPAT.  As our VPAT process developed, we decided to make our VPAT a live document that would be continuously updated to guide our efforts in between releases.  Throughout the effort, we worked to employ staff with limited vision.