The Importance of Procurement in Accessibility Policy
http://ncdae.org/policy/procurement.cfm

Rowland, Cyndi
National Center on Disability and Access to Education
2005

Abstract:

Most policies in education focus exclusively on the practices of in-house Web development professionals. Few institutions are looking at the Web content and Web-based applications that come to them from other sources (e.g., content management systems, finance systems, student information systems, healthcare or benefit systems, human resource systems). So, what is missing in current policy? A mechanism to procure accessible Web products and services is missing. Without procurement as part of the policy, true system-level accessibility can only be an illusion.