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From: awoolley@cusa.canon.com
Date: Tue, Dec 19 2006 12:10 PM
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Yes, that makes sense. To clarify:
"an E&IT product may be designed to meet the Section 508 standards by:
1) Providing the accessibility features through the device itself, or
2) Making it compatible with existing AT
3) or both #1 and #2"
Aubrey
Aubrey Woolley
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Canon USA, Inc.
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This works if you add the word existing to 2. So that you're talking about
existing AT or likely to exist, if you could define that.
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Thank you, Randy. I'd just like to add that an E&IT product may be
designed to meet the Section 508 standards by:
1) Providing the accessibility features through the device itself, or
2) Making it compatible with AT
3) or both #1 and #2
A product may even meet many of the 508 criteria using both methods,
perhaps depending on the impairment being addressed. For example, the
manufacturer could decide to make the height of a product adjustable to
meet certain 508 requirements AND partner with an AT company to create a
more specialized solution for users who are blind or have dexterity
impairments.
This is a good opportunity for both manufacturers and AT companies to play
a role. We should also encourage mainstream E&IT manufacturers to
incorporate accessibility features when it makes sense to do so.
The scenario presented in the previous e-mail is a difficult one, in which
it appears that neither the mainstream E&IT manufacturer nor the AT vendor
are motivated/able, for whatever reason, to make the product accessible.
Since Section 508 uses the "carrot" system to encourage accessible design,
I am not sure what the appropriate solution is (of course the assumption
is that this product is covered by 508 and not 255). Perhaps our
procurement experts can help us on this one.
Thank you,
Aubrey
Aubrey Woolley
Government Policy and Compliance Analyst
Government Marketing Division
Canon USA, Inc.
TEL: (703) 807-3158
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Randy wrote:
So, back to 508. Perhaps our definition should include something like
this:
A device is considered ³Self-Contained² if the original manufacturer has
not
provided a way for third-party software and hardware to be added to the
device.
No. This doesn't work. There may be a way, but if no AT vendor has
developed
the necessary AT, the product is NOT accessible. The developer says: Sure
you're welcome to make my product accessible. The AT developer says: Gee I
don't have te development resource to do that. So it's possible, not
happening, and not accessible. A product is only accessible if that
accessibility is reasonably available and exists.
A similar example occurs when the dveloper says "it worked with X AT" but
doesn't work with any of the AT users actually have. Still not really
accessible except in theory.
-Randy
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