Thread Subject: Latest controls access language (3:15pm ET)

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From: Larry Goldberg
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 1:20 PM
Subject: Latest controls access language (3:15pm ET)

Proposed language for user controls on video programming products


In order to comply with this subpart, the user controls needed to configure
and activate general and accessibility features on products that receive or
display analog or digital television must be easy to find and easy to use by
people with disabilities. In at least one location, these must be comparable
in prominence to the controls needed to change volume and channels, where
the ability to control these features is otherwise provided.


For example:
1. For captioning:
(a) A caption on/off on a TV remote comparable in
prominence to the volume control on that remote;
(b) Caption controls on the first menu that appear when on-screen menus are
displayed

2. Audio equivalents to on-screen information and visual menu selections
3. A tactile button to turn on audio equivalents;
4. A user preferences dialog that is accessible and directly reachable from
a login screen.



- Larry

From: Dave Singer
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: Latest controls access language (3:15pm ET)

I'm not sure that Larry started with the latest text, for the recent insert.

Here is the insert on my old (latest?) base text:

In order to comply with this subpart, the user controls needed to
configure and activate any accessibility feature, and the general
controls used by those needing that accessibility feature, on
products that receive or display analog or digital television, must
be easy to find and easy to use by people needing that accessibility
feature. In at least one location, these must be comparable in
prominence to the controls needed to mute sound, or perform program
selection, where the ability to control these features is otherwise
provided.


For example:
1. For captioning: (a) A caption on/off on a TV remote comparable in
prominence to the volume control on that remote; (b) Caption controls
on the first menu that appear when on-screen menus are displayed

2. Audio equivalents to on-screen information and visual menu selections
3. A tactile button to turn on audio equivalents;
4. A user preferences dialog that is accessible and directly reachable from
a login screen.


--
David Singer
Apple/QuickTime

From: Dave Singer
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: Latest controls access language (3:15pm ET)

Here is an attempt to generalize it so it's not TV-specific.


The user controls needed to configure and activate any accessibility
feature, and the general controls used by those needing that
accessibility feature, must be easy to find and easy to use by people
needing that accessibility feature. In at least one location, these
must be comparable in prominence to the normal controls for the
device, where the ability to control these features is otherwise
provided.

Normal controls for products that receive or display analog or
digital television include controls needed to mute sound, or perform
program selection.


* * *

Now an attempt to re-write it for clarity

A user needing access to an accessibility feature must be able to
find easily, and use easily, both the controls needed to enable that
accessibility feature, and other general controls that that user also
needs to be able to use. In at least one location, these controls
must be comparable in prominence to the normal controls for the
device, where the ability to control these features is otherwise
provided.

Normal controls for products that receive or display analog or
digital television include controls needed to mute sound, or perform
program selection.

* * *

The examples remain.

For example:
1. For captioning: (a) A caption on/off on a TV remote comparable in
prominence to the volume control on that remote; (b) Caption controls
on the first menu that appear when on-screen menus are displayed

2. Audio equivalents to on-screen information and visual menu selections
3. A tactile button to turn on audio equivalents;
4. A user preferences dialog that is accessible and directly reachable from
a login screen.


--
David Singer
Apple/QuickTime