[blindlaw] Purposely turning off accessibility in government forms

[James Pepper]

I have found government forms where the forms designer has purposely turned
off accessibility settings. They make the forms to be accessible and then
they turn off the settings so the forms will pass accessibility tests but
are unusable. The purpose is to double bill the government for their work,
by first creating a form with accessibility features and then they go into
each form field and turn off the accessibility for the standard form. The
government is paying for two forms and for the time it takes to turn off
the accessibility on each item, on each line of each form.  I have tested
over 2400 government forms and found only 120 of them that have
accessibility settings set.  This covers over 20 federal agencies.

Who should I contact to fix this problem because when I approach agencies
they send me to the very same people who did this work and they have no
intention of fixing the problem.  There doesn't seem to be any oversight.

James Pepper