Analysis and Sorting Tool for 508, 255, and EITAAC provisions

Gregg V's Analysis and Sorting Tool for 508, 255, and EITAAC provisions

About the tool

This is a spreadsheet tool i am using to help me analyze and understand the different guidelines and how they relate to each other.

I am also using it to explore the Idea of Tagging products that Jim Tobias brought up at one of our early TEITAC meetings and again in this General Group.

The Spreadsheet currently contains

• EITAAC guidelines from last Advisory Committee
• 255 Telecom Guidelines
• 508 E&IT Guidelines

I will later be adding HFES-200.2 Guidelines which are identical to ISO 9241-171 (which we do not have access to) if i can get permission to post that version.

I may also include the User Needs Summary from JTCT1 SWG that was based on the Trace Design Tool User Needs if I can figure out a way to do that

Features of the tool

The tool allows all of the following just by using the built in sort capabilities of Excel

• Analysis can include a combination of the guidelines
  • you can look at just a single standard or all of them together
• SHORT NAMES have been added to make it easier to find things
• you can find all of the guidelines that apply to a particular product characteristic
  • there are sort buttons in the header for each product characteristic
  • best way is to use the TOP choices in each drop down menu to SORT the category rather than FILTER it
    • sometimes the top choices do not show up unless you scroll up. a bug in excel.
  • If you filter then it will hide all the provisions but the ones related to that characteristic
    • if you filter - you must use the SHOW ALL command to get the other provisions back
    • SHOW ALL command can be found on the DATA menu under FILTER.
• I also have SORT WORDS and SUB-SORT WORDS that i used to get similar guidelines together so i could look at them
  • These might be useful for categorizing the provisions.. or not.
  • You can get a list of these by looking at the pull down menu on the title
  • I usually leave the sheet sorted by these categories to keep the similar items together
• SORT BY GUIDELINE buy sorting by the REFERENCE field
• The Characteristic X's are NOT DONE YET. so dont count on those yet. will have done on sunday
  • (i have been trapped in plane hell coming back from Spain for the last two days so I am late with these)

Location of the tool

Here is the location where you can download my tool

• GreggV's Analysis and Sorting Tool for 508, 255, and EITAAC provisions

Feel free to play with it or modify your version to do your own exploring. Share your results back with the group if you find interesting things.

Latest Changes

I've been trying to sort out provisions into something that was not technology based but strategy based.

I preserved the old view Sheet #1

But added a new view (Sheet #5)

The new view has:

1. The tagging feature we had before (now fully marked in)
2. The disability tagging we had before (also marked in)
3. A collapsing of all the ones that were the same or nearly identical
   • (you can expand with the plus marks on the left)
4. The whole thing is sorted by strategy.
   • We could do other things but I tried this one

The provisions are all now sorted as follows.

Provisions for access by those with REDUCED Vision, Hearing, Physical, Cog-lang-learning, Speed

• Reduced requirements of user and/or Enhanced output and/or ability to use enhancer
  (Magnify/amplify, Remove/Reduce background noise-info-elaborations, Shift into perceivable range
  • Reduce control & manipulation requirements (8 508&255 provisions + 5 which are EITAAC only)
  • Reduce Time requirements (6+0)
  • Reduce Cognitive-Language-learning requirements (1+4)
  • Enhanced output (7+6)
  • Ability to connect Enhancers (3+2)

Provisions for access by those "WITHOUT" Vision, Hearing, Reach, Locked-in, or Color Perception

• Alternative presentation or control, and/or info & Control (and connection point) so one can create alternate presentation and/or control
  • Alternative Presentations/ Controls (25+11)
  • Ability to install alternative presenters/controllers (13+2)
  • Ability to connect external alternate presenters/controllers (5+3)

Provisions for access by those with Disabling Sensitivity (Seizure, alergy, distraction, RF/EM)

• Provide ability to avoid (3+2)

Provisions for access to Documentation, support and Training

• Access features discoverable and Documentation, support and training accessible
  • Access Features Discoverable (2+1)
  • Accessible Documentation, support and Training (4+2)

Cross Strategy and Process Provisions (listed individually)

• 508 & 255 provisons
  • Accessible Electronic Forms
  • No interference with Access Features
  • No display override of display settings
  • Include access in design, devel, & fabrication
  • Include PWD throughout process (4 parts)
  • Changes shall not decreas access
• EITAAC Provisions
  • Interface over network must be Accessible
  • Text author tools produce accessible output.
  • Accessible startup/restart
  • Content conform to WCAG 1.0-AA
  • No automatic remapping of keys
  • User agents conform to UAAG (P1&2)
  • PDA accessible or functions duplicated on net
  • Web author tools conform to ATAG (P1&2)
  • On ITM - ID and preference Accessible

This is all listed in our workpages at the bottom of the page we were working on TAGs from "Functional Components View"#Sort Categories for Provisions