Thread Subject: Re: 6.3e

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From: Karen Peltz Strauss
Date: Thu, Jul 26 2007 4:35 AM

Don't we typically use "audio" in situations like this? . . as in:

All "multimedia" containing interactive elements, such as menus for
selection and access to segments of the content, that are part of the
content MUST include AUDIO equivalents for menu selections.

Karen



----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregg Vanderheiden" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
To: "'TEITAC Audio/Video Subcommittee'" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: [teitac-video] 6.3e


> Verbal just means words. This email is verbal. The menus on screen are
> verbal. (so is braille)
>
> I think you mean "vocal" or "spoken" or something. But verbal is wrong
> word if you want people who are blind to hear them.
>
>
> Gregg
> -- ------------------------------
> Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D.
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of
>> Larry Goldberg
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:41 PM
>> To: TEITAC AV list
>> Subject: Re: [teitac-video] 6.3e
>>
>> Whitney,
>>
>> Looks like we have general agreement for the new "truncated"
>> language as indicated below. Can you post this in your doc?
>>
>> - Larry
>>
>>
>> Larry Goldberg wrote:
>>
>> > How would it work if we truncated the requirement like this?:
>> >
>> > 6.3-E - Interactive Elements
>> > All "multimedia" containing interactive elements, such as menus for
>> > selection and access to segments of the content, that are
>> part of the
>> > content MUST include verbal equivalents for menu selections.
>> >
>> > - Larry
>> >
>> >
>> > Hoffman, Allen wrote:
>> >
>> >> Larry Goldberg wrote:
>> >> 6.3-E - Interactive Elements
>> >> Recent Unresolved Discussion regarding 6.3-E - Interactive
>> Elements:
>> >> 6.3-E - Interactive Elements
>> >> All materials containing interactive elements that are part of the
>> >> content must comply with 1194.21 [a-z] as well as 1194.24 a-e.
>> >>
>> >> While I think this language points where we want to go, it doesn't
>> >> plainly say that for menus, audio equivalents must be provided as
>> >> focus moves. Note, this is really critical for when the
>> content is
>> >> coming from a closed media, or being used on a closed playback
>> >> device. there must be a simpler way to say this so that
>> this meaning
>> >> is clear. I think there may be distinction between
>> read-only media
>> >> content and more read/write interactive content here, for
>> example, a
>> >> flash e-learning course delivered with multimedia over the
>> web must
>> >> meet the content, web, and software standards, which in
>> theory include a/v requirements.
>> >> In the spirit of creating general function-based technical
>> >> requirements, then moving to any specific requirements for
>> narrowly
>> >> scoped subsets, I would like to prose that the 6.3E item is either
>> >> kept as is, and additional more media specific provisions
>> drafted, or
>> >> we incorporate some specific media-specific language into it.
>> >>
>> >> Here are some problems I see with just saying interactive elements
>> >> must meet software requirements:
>> >> They have to meet closed requirements primarily, as closed
>> media is
>> >> closed due to playback device primarily.
>> >> software contains requirements specifically related to
>> accessibility
>> >> services on platforms, these don't match reality of
>> playback systems
>> >> today.
>> >>
>> >> So:
>> >> rewrite of 6.3E might be:
>> >> 6.3-E - Interactive Elements
>> >> All "multimedia" containing interactive elements, such as
>> menus for
>> >> selection and access to segments of the content, that are part of
>> >> the content MUST include verbal equivalents for menu
>> selections, and
>> >> must comply with 1194.21 [a-z] as well as 1194.24 a-e.
>> >>
>> >> Note, this would make my concern plainly addressed if we then work
>> >> with web/software/content to nail down the final standards in that
>> >> section that have to be complied with more carefully.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Allen Hoffman -- = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ; v: 202-447-0303
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>> >> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Larry
>> >> Goldberg
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:04 PM
>> >> To: TEITAC AV list
>> >> Subject: [teitac-video] AV Meeting today - 3pm ET
>> >> Importance: High
>> >>
>> >> Agenda:
>> >>
>> >> resolve 4-A:
>> >> 4. Additional Provisions for Audio-Visual Content or
>> Players/Displays
>> >> 4.1.A Caption Playback
>> >>
>> >> 6.3-E - Interactive Elements
>> >> Recent Unresolved Discussion regarding 6.3-E - Interactive
>> Elements:
>> >> 6.3-E - Interactive Elements
>> >> All materials containing interactive elements that are part of the
>> >> content must comply with 1194.21 [a-z] as well as 1194.24 a-e.
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >>
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>> >> 91-120-2444711 (Noida)
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >> - Larry
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>

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