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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Feb 21, 2006 1:30PM

> You would include provisions from 1194.21(a-l) only for
> "software" that might include Java. Interactive elements
> would not require 1194.21 provisions as these are addressed
> by provisions from 1194.22. you also probably would not need
> 1194.24 provisions as 1194.22(b) generally addresses
> multimedia content.

22a and 22b together do address the need for captions, but audio
descriptions are not required unless .24 standards are addressed.

What is not clear is whether it is being argued that 1194.21 applies to
websites with interactivity because the 11194.22 standards are
insufficient to address all of the issues that these types of site have
and that should be dealt with, or if that is what the standards indicate
should be done.

The .22 standards are titled "Web-based Intranet and Internet
Information and Applications" which would seem to include interactive
web sites, including those using javascript to create this
interactivity. 1194.22(l) addresses this point in its reference to
scripting.

I'm not saying that meeting the requirements of 1194.22 fully addresses
the needs of all users, but that isn't the point here. Since we are
dealing with a law, we need to be clear on what the law actually says
instead of what we think it should say.

AWK