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EWG:Draft Oct 26 With Limited Reach Strength Manipulation

1.1-G - With Limited Reach, Strength, or Manipulation

This page is the text proposed in the Nov Plenary Meeting.

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Proposed text in Oct 26 draft:
Products must provide at least one mode that allows access to all functionality of the product for people with limited reach and strength, and that does not require simultaneous actions. This access may be provided directly or through assistive technology.

Addition from telecommunications guidelines proposed by Karen Peltz Strauss
Products must provide at least one mode that allows access for people with limited reach and strength, that does not require user fine motor control, and that does not require simultaneous actions.

Rationale: This draft adds the phrase "that does not require fine motor control" as well as reflecting the general recommendation to remove the phrase about AT.

Source: §1193.41(e)

Comment from ITI
This text is completely redundant with the technical provision 2.1-D (2). This duplication is unnecessary and adds to the burden of meeting 508 with no benefit. This should be removed.

Comments from ITAA
Reword for consistency. “Allows access without requiring more than limited reach and strength, and without requiring simultaneous actions.”

Comment from Japan/Hajime
Previous functional performance criteria include the following:

"At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require fine motor control or simultaneous actions and that is operable with limited reach and strength shall be provided."

In section 1.1-G (With Limited Reach, Strength, or Manipulation), we could only find the functional performance criteria relating to the clause " does not require simultaneous actions" and could not find anything relating to the clause "does not require fine motor control." Do we miss it in the new draft?

Comments from CSD/Trace Center
Change to "…Products must provide at least one mode that allows access for people with limited reach and strength, and that does not require user fine motor control or simultaneous actions. [to address Japan and Karen P-S comment. Also somewhat ITI]