HW Minutes Apr 27

HARDWARE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES – APRIL 28TH, 2007

In attendance: Tom Brett, Gregg Vanderheiden, Randy Marsden, Jim Elekes, and Nick Truesdell.

1. Minimum Height Requirement We briefly discussed the concerns posted on the list by Don from Lexmark about the maximum height restriction being changed from 54” to 48”. In his email, Don referred to “substantial research” conducted by Lexmark. We concluded it would be best to table this discussion until Don can join us to elaborate on that research and his concerns. It was pointed out that this change is being propagated as a result of our efforts to harmonize with ADA-AG (which is proposing the height change).

ACTION ITEM: Invite Don to next week’s meeting. (Randy - completed)

2. Hardware Report to the Editing Committee Gregg Vanderheiden pointed out that we neglected to include a discussion of 1194.25(e) in our report to the editing committee. This section deals with audio output, and while most of the issues relate to software (which is likely why it was overlooked), there is still a hardware issue related to including an audio output jack.

ACTION ITEM: Gregg will send an email to the list outlining the issue. (Gregg) ACTION ITEM: Add this to the agenda for next week’s meeting. (Rob)

Gregg also pointed out that we deal with touch controls under 1194.26, but that they are also referenced in 1194.25. This can cause confusion because it looks like we missed it until you continue on down to 1194.26.

ACTION ITEM: Pass a note on to the editing committee to make sure they are aware that this issue is still outstanding and that we are planning for our draft wording to take the place of what is currently listed in both 1194.25 and 1194.26. (Rob) ACTION ITEM: Follow-up with Debbie Cook to see if she has completed the draft wording as assigned in previous meetings. (Randy)

3. Review of the JIS Hardware Standard (Japan) We went down the list and discussed whether or not each item pertained to hardware according to how we have defined our subcommittee. Items that weren’t, were flagged for forwarding to the other relevant subcommittees. We made it about half-way down the list, and stopped at 2.6.5, where we will pick up next week. Once we have completed going through the list, we will notify the other subcommittees as to the relevant parts they should take a look at. Gregg added to the comments on the Wiki as we went through the list – please refer to those for more information.

Hardware items that resulted from today’s review that warrant further discussion: Allergic material, and discussion on the definition of “Standard Ports”.

ACTION ITEMS: add “allergies” and “Standard Ports” to a future meeting agenda (Rob)

Meeting was adjourned at 11:59am EST.