Thread Subject: FW: proposal for 8.1 redistribution.

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From: Sean Hayes
Date: Thu, Oct 11 2007 10:20 AM

The consensus of the subgroup seems to be as below:

Sean Hayes
Incubation Lab
Accessibility Business Unit
Microsoft

Office: +44 118 909 5867,
Mobile: +44 7875 091385

(based on Sep 14 draft).

Replace 8.1 with a clause in the General Technical Requirements:

1.2-X - Accessible Content
In complying with this subpart, each agency must operate software in a manner such that output from the software that is distributed or archived by the agency is made accessible to people with disabilities.


Add notes to the provisions in section 3 as follows:

3-F - Non-text Objects

Note: In order to achieve this provision, non text objects in data operated on by the software must be associated with textual equivalents that the software can obtain as readily as it can obtain the non-text object itself.
Where a non-text object is a scanned image of text, textual equivalents must allow for the inclusion of the text of the scanned image of text.
Where a non-text object is a dynamic presentation, graphs, or other derived information from a data source, textual equivalents must allow for the inclusion of the data used.


4-A

Note: in order to achieve this provision, synchronized media that contains audible information necessary for the comprehension of the material must be associated with a synchronized text equivalent of that audible information, that the player can obtain as readily as it can obtain the synchronized media itself.

4-B

Note: in order to achieve this provision, synchronized media that contains non-audible information necessary for the comprehension of the material must be associated with a synchronized audible equivalent of that non-audible information, that the player can obtain as readily as it can obtain the synchronized media itself.

3-M

Note: in order to achieve this provision, objects in data operated on by the software which can be presented in 2 dimensions, must be associated with sufficient information to identify a logical one dimensional presentation of the same objects, that the software can obtain as readily as it can obtain the 2 dimensional objects themselves.

(comment should this extend to higher dimensions too?)

3-O (bullet 1)

Note: in order to achieve this provision, table objects in data operated on by the software must be associated with sufficient information to identify any row and column headers for the table, that the software can obtain as readily as it can obtain the table itself

3-O (bullet 2)

Note: in order to achieve this provision, cells in table objects with multiple logical levels of headers in data operated on by the software must be associated with sufficient information to identify any row and column headers for the table cell, that the software can obtain as readily as it can obtain the table cell itself

3-U (on bullet row, state... etc)
Note: in order to achieve this provision, interactive elements encoded in data operated on by the software must be associated with sufficient information to determine a role, state(s), name, and description for the interactive element, that the software can obtain as readily as it can obtain the interactive elements itself.

3-N
Note: in order to achieve this provision, links encoded in data operated on by the software must be associated with link text that the software can obtain as readily as it can obtain the link itself..

3-G
Note: in order to achieve this provision, text encoded in data operated on by the software must be associated with sufficient information to identify both the primary language of the text, and the language of any sections or the text that are in another language from the primary language, that the software can obtain as readily as it can obtain the text itself.



Sean Hayes
Incubation Lab
Accessibility Business Unit
Microsoft

Office: +44 118 909 5867,
Mobile: +44 7875 091385

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