Thread Subject: Re: teitac-telecom Digest, Vol 7, Issue 7

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From: Brooner Mary-AMB004
Date: Wed, Apr 04 2007 12:15 PM

All - I apologize for sending the message below to the TEITAC listserv.
I answered the wrong email... Mary Brooner

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: [teitac-subparta] Fundamental Alteration. (Jim Tobias)
2. Re: teitac-telecom Digest, Vol 7, Issue 6 (Brooner Mary-AMB004)


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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:35:42 -0400
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Subject: Re: [teitac-telecom] [teitac-subparta] Fundamental
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Gregg wrote:

> It was made clear in the 255 regulations that ADDING ACCESSIBILITY is
> never and should never be considered a fundamental alteration -
> except if it fundamentally altered the original function.

JT:
I don't see such a statement anywhere in the Section 255 regulations;
can you please cite this?
Here is the text regarding fundamental alteration:

"(d) A fourth factor in making readily achievable assessments is whether
the accessibility solution results in a fundamental alteration of the
product.
This factor, derived by extension from the "undue burden" criteria of
the ADA, takes into consideration the effect adding an accessibility
feature might have on a given product. For example, it may not be
readily achievable to add a large display for low vision users to a
small pager designed to fit in a pocket, because making the device
significantly larger would be a fundamental alteration of the device. On
the other hand, adding a voice output may not involve a fundamental
alteration and would serve both blind and low vision users. In addition,
adding an infrared port might be readily achievable and would allow a
large-display peripheral device to be coupled to it. Of course
fundamental alteration means a change in the fundamental characteristic
of the product, not merely a cosmetic or esthetic change."

JT:
The Access Board's example of the large display on the small pager seems
clear to me: it's a fundamental alteration because it affects an
implicit "fundamental characteristic" of the product -- its size -- not
because it interferes with the function the pager performs. Size is not
the only criterion, of course. The Access Board's definition only
excludes cosmetic or esthetic changes.

Gregg wrote:
> Adding text would not be a fundamental alteration if it didn't
> fundamentally alter the ability to deliver voice telephony. Since
> text requires less bandwidth and since it does not interfere with
> voice it is difficult to see how it would fundamentally alter voice
> telephony.

JT:
Adding text may not fundamentally alter how the product delivers voice
telephony, but it would alter the product. For example, you would have
to have a keyboard (or at least a keyboard port), a display (or at least
a display port), and the hardware and software to handle text input and
display output. And that's only the change to the desktop unit -- the
server/PBX would also have to be modified to handle the text traffic.

Gregg wrote:
> Adding video would similarly not be a fundamental alteration UNLESS
> the increased bandwidth required of video fundamentally altered the
> ability to transmit voice communication.

JT:
Adding video capability to a voice telephony system would also
fundamentally alter it; the desktop unit would require a camera or
camera port, and a display or display port. Additional changes to the
server.

Gregg wrote:
> But simply the fact of adding text and voice should not be considered
> a
> fundamental alteration. This was clear in 255 and if it is
> not clear in
> 508 then we need to be sure that we add text so that it is indeed
> clear.

JT:
I agree -- there needs to be a lot more clarity on this.



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Call me at home anytime after 5 pm EDT. I'm home for the evening and I
don't think this will take too long. I have the captioned video on my
computer now.

Happy Birthday, sweetie...

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Today's Topics:

1. Telecommunication subcommittee teleconferences up until the
General TEITAC meeting (Tom Brett)
2. FW: log onto internet AND telephone problems
(John Combs (jcombs))


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Below are the date and times for the Telecommunication Subcommittee
teleconferences until the start of the general TEITAC meeting on May 22.




Date

Time

Number
Code

FedRCC <http://www.fedrcc.us/fedrcc/>

Tohru <http://teitac.org/tohru/>


04/13/07

2:00 - 3:30

877-825-8522
Access Code: 0835477#

677222

Telecom


04/16/07

2:00 - 3:30

877-825-8522
Access Code: 0835477#

677223

Telecom


04/23/07

2:00 - 3:30

877-825-8522
Access Code: 0835477#

677224

Telecom


04/30/07

2:00 - 3:30

877-825-8522
Access Code: 0835477#

677225

Telecom


05/07/07

2:00 - 3:30

877-825-8522
Access Code: 0835477#

694908

Telecom


05/14/07

2:00 - 3:30

877-825-8522
Access Code: 0835477#

694910

Telecom


05/21/07

2:00 - 3:30

877-825-8522
Access Code: 0835477#

694909

Telecom





Tom Brett





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Subject: [teitac-telecom] FW: log onto internet AND telephone
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The attached Word documention is an article from the UN World Health
Organization (WHO) about RFI "hypersensitivity."

Here is the same article on the WHO web page:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs296/en/

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