TAGs from "Functional Components View"
Tags from Original "Functional Components View"
The Functional Components View characterizes the provisions rather than sorting them. this allows any provision to have many different characteristics rather than just one (if it was sorted). This is a very powerful technique. It also is unbounded. So we need to choose characteristics or tags well.
The ones in the FCV presently are:
( FROM TEITAC - Functional Components View spreadsheet (Jim Tobias))
Potential Grouping
- Audio amplification
- Audio alternative
- Color and contrast settings
- Connectors
- Flashing
- Info in color
- Mechanical controls
- Text info about non-text objects
- Timeouts
Functional Components or Product Features
- Has a keyboard, keypad, other physical controls
- Has a visual display
- Any visual display
- Visually displayed information includes non-text objects
- Visually displayed information uses color
- Visual display is capable of flashing or blinking
- Interface has a time-based element
- Has audio output
- Many more ...
Others suggested by Kate
Grouping
- Alternative Formats
- Images
- Audio, Video, and Animation
- Biometrics
- Information About Elements
- Product accessibility Features
- System Status
(suggested edits to existing terms)
- Timed Responses
- Use of Color
Italic text
From Gregg Effort (Partial)
- Has Physical Controls
- Has Touchscreen
- Uses Mouse/pointer Input
- Has Printed text, labels, etc.
- Has Visual Display with Text
- Has Visual Display with Graphics
- Uses Color
- Voice Output
- Sound Output (Other than speech)
- Has Biometric Identification Feature
- Has time Synchronized Media
- Voice conversation (at a distance?) (is this covered general provisions for voice output)
- Ability to connect alternate interfaces (that a user would have)
Current Working list of Product Characteristic Tags
This is a list of tags that would be applied to Provisions (508, 255). These are NOT sort categories. Provisions could have one or many of these tags that would apply. These tags would be used by producers and others to identify provisions that would apply to product that have different characteristics. It can also be used to narrow a list of provisions to only those that apply to a particular product. If ANY tag applies to a product then any provisions associated with that tag would apply.
PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS
- Has Physical Controls (incl. latches, connectors,etc?
- could be broken down into input devices (which have their own software components, actually), other physical controls (on/off, etc.), and other mechanical components (battery cases, connectors). Would this be helpful?)
- Has Touchscreen or Softkeys or Touch Sensitive Buttons
- Uses Mouse/pointer Input
- Uses Keyboard (Physical - touch typeable)
- Has Printed text, labels, etc. on the product itself
- Has Visual Display with Text
- Has Visual Display with Graphics
- Uses Color (on keys, labels, displays, indicators, anywhere etc.)
- Has Sound Output (Other than speech)
- Has Speech Out (including conversation)
- Has Speaker that is held to ear or product projects large magnetic field
- Involves Speech Transmission over PSTN (analog phone)
- Involves Speech Transmission over IP (Digital)
- Has Speech In (Control or conversation))
- Has Biometric Identification Feature
- Has time Synchronized Media
- Has Time limits of any type (timeout, double-clicks, keyrepeat)
- Has User Documentation (Any type - electronic or print)
- Has Customer Support / Training
- Has OS that supports installed AT and user can install
- Has No OS that supports installed AT or OS/Hardware Locked
- Passes information/data through
- (passing through captioning info, for example.)
- Has electronic forms (Web & other Electronic
- Involves Web Content or Applications
- (is this too broad, and should be broken down into interface elements?)
- Product Allows User to set Preferences
- (this may be a subcategory. e.g. IF the product uses color AND allows user preferences....)
- All products (provisions with this tag ALWAYS apply)
- For example a provision aimed at making product easier to understand.
- Limited to Particular Type of product (Change these?) (what is this? functional breakdown? product categories as they are now?)
Questionable ones - do we need these?
- Product that user can't use their AT with (need to so something different about theses?)
- Involves Voice conversation (at a distance?) (is this covered general provisions for voice output) (could be "realtime voice conversation")
Questions raised in discussion of Take 2
- Is Ability to connect alt interfaces (that a user would have) part of the CHARACTERISTICS list or a requirement(provision). ????
- Where do packaging, setup etc come in?
- should we have a list of GENERAL GUIDANCE items
- What is covered:
- daily use ("Functions typically performed by end users"?)
- What is not covered:
- Closet exemption [need better term for 'back office']
- Maintenance
- Setup?
- Packaging? (part of setup?)
- Service? (when is something service? - adding paper to personal printer?)
- What is covered:
Disability Categories
- Blindness
- Low Vision
- ColorBlindness (all levels)
- Deafness
- Deafness + Speech ??
- Deaf-Blindness
- Hard of Hrng
- Physical - Mobility (is this category relevant for computer use?)
- Physical - Dexterity (or maybe use the term "motor control"; some users use their feet with a conventional mouse as an example yet many would not think of this as "dexterity" as this is typically thought of with respect to the hands)
- Speech
- Cognitive Language, Learning
- Seizure disorders
- Allergy - Sensitivity
- Every user (what does this mean?)
- Multiple disabilities (e.g., Deaf-Blind)
Sort Categories for Provisions
Sort Categories with short name of provisions
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
