Thread Subject: Re: General Issues: Speech interfaces and equivalent facilitation

From: awoolley@cusa.canon.com
Date: Mon, Jan 22 2007 1:20 PM

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To clarify my comment from 1/10/07 (which I hope was not taken out of
context):

GV:
1) that products need to be accessible either via available assistive
technology or directly accessible.

2) that products that require productivity (e.g. workstations) need
to be
accessible to assistive technologies to allow matching of user abilities
necessary to achieve high levels of productivity.

Canon supports accessible design for mainstream E&IT products via
available assistive technology (AT), through the device itself, or
through collaborative use of both.

As an active member of the Assistive Technology Industry Association
(ATIA), Canon USA is a supporter of AT. Due to the wide range of
disabilities that exist, AT fulfills an important role in creating an
"accessible" product. Because mainstream E&IT is designed for a broad
market, AT can provide specialized access that standard products do not
usually offer.

I should add that I am speaking from a hardware perspective. Though, I
don't see why it would be beneficial for AT to simply "go away someday"
and am not supportive of this concept.

Best Regards,

Aubrey

Aubrey Woolley
Government Policy and Compliance Analyst
Government Marketing Division
Canon USA, Inc.
TEL: (703) 807-3158
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I agree with the following and would ad that it should be our hope
that AT will go away someday because we don't need it anymore due to
product advance.

"I'm also concerned that if this group of products were only required
to be
accessible through AT, manufacturers would no longer be motivated to
design accessibility into the product itself and we may even lose
some of
the progress we have gained in this area."

On Jan 10, 2007, at 10:38 AM, = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = wrote:

RE:

What if we just said

2) that products that require productivity (e.g. workstations) need
to be
accessible to assistive technologies to allow matching of user abilities
necessary to achieve high levels of productivity.

Gregg, could you explain more about what could be considered "products
that require productivity"?

It seems that it could be almost any E&IT product, depending on how
it is
being used.

I'm also concerned that if this group of products were only required
to be
accessible through AT, manufacturers would no longer be motivated to
design accessibility into the product itself and we may even lose
some of
the progress we have gained in this area.

Aubrey

Aubrey Woolley
Government Policy and Compliance Analyst
Government Marketing Division
Canon USA, Inc.
TEL: (703) 807-3158
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Re: [teitac-general] [teitac-websoftware] General Issues: Speech
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I posted something on this earlier that might be helpful to you.

Here, I found it. We need to tweak the words to fit but the basic
idea
is
here.


What if we just said

1) that products need to be accessible either via available assistive
technology or directly accessible.

2) that products that require productivity (e.g. workstations) need
to be
accessible to assistive technologies to allow matching of user abilities
necessary to achieve high levels of productivity.


Since this would apply to the functional performance criteria I am
adding
the General list.

Gregg
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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D.



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> Subject: [teitac-websoftware] General Issues: Speech
> interfaces and equivalent facilitation
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>
> Speech interfaces are being incorporated into some
> applications seemingly replacing the need for screen readers.
> This typically is not equivalent to the functionality of
> screen readers and normally does not interface with
> refreshable Braille displays. It does, however, meet the
> functional performance criteria (31(a)) to provide at least
> one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not
> require user vision (assuming other necessary features such
> as keyboard operation, etc.).
>
> Thoughts on this topic?
>
> Andi
>
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