[Athen] ATHEN's response to the section 508 update

[Sean J Keegan]

Hi Joe,

Sorry for the delayed participation - I have been reprising the role of 
Florence Nightingale for my family.

Comments:

Page 6, 3rd paragraph:
“Our service charge is only related to help desk phone calls, chat, 
email or remote desktop to desktop support the software is something 
that you downloaded for free, something that is by nature of acquisition 
your property.”

Sentence appears to be run-on.  Suggest:
“Our service charge is only related to help desk phone calls, chat, 
email or remote desktop-to-desktop support. The software you downloaded 
for free is, by nature of acquisition, your property.”

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Page 7, 2nd paragraph:
"An advisory should be included to recommend that as new media is 
created, accessibility data must be included. For example, when DVDs 
were first developed, captioning was not taken into consideration, and 
we have ended up with a confusion of Line-21 formatted captions, 
subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and subtitle tracks. There 
is no standard."

Not sure what is meant by this paragraph.  Does it mean there are no 
standards related to captioning for different media formats?  Does it 
mean that there is no standard method for playing captions?  Does it 
mean there are no standards specific to identifying if the media is 
captioned?  Accessibility data *is* included; it's just that it can 
exist differently for the same media format.

I am unclear as to what ATHEN's intent is for this paragraph.


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Page 8, 1st paragraph:
"ATHEN recommends that an advisory be included that defines a relative 
time frame for Alternate format delivery. For example, “equally 
effective” and “equable” to the nature of the information transmission, 
update and, storage (i.e. legacy documents, archived databases, and 
time-sensitive material should be available in an “equitable time 
sensitive manner”.)"

Suggest:
Equable is generally defined as "not easily angered, even-tempered" or 
"calm and steady".  Was "equitable" the intended word?

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All my other issues (specific to the document) appear to be addressed in 
the latest version sent out by Joe.  Looks like a solid document.

Once this gets completed, I have a feeling that there will likely need 
to be another document from ATHEN/AHEAD providing guidance to 
educational institutions as to what the refresh actually means.

Take care,
Sean



On 3/7/12 8:28 AM, Humbert, Joseph A wrote:

> Hi Again,

>

> I have incorporated the suggestions from both Aaron and Patrick (Thankx) and comments send directly to me from Terrill Thompson and Bill Grubaugh.  Please keep comments and suggestions coming.  New draft included

>

> Alterative link to document: http://www.joehumbert.com/ATHEN_Response_to_Access_Board_ANPRM.doc

>

> - Joe

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Patrick Burke [mailto:burke at ucla.edu]

> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 9:00 AM

> To: Humbert, Joseph A

> Subject: RE: [Athen] ATHEN's response to the section 508 update

>

>

>      * Hi Joe,

>      * Looking good!...

>      * One question, re this section (bottom of page 6):

>      * The Functional Success Criteria (Chapter 3) does not include any criteria specific to learning disabilities. We were unable to come up with a specific recommendation, but I'm capturing this here as a placeholder for further deliberation.

>

> Does this mean it requires further work by ATHEN, or by the Access Board? If meant as a task for regulators, I suggest changing to:

>

> "We were unable to formulate specific recommendations, but effects on populations with learning disabilities deserve further deliberation."

>

> Fun stuff! :) Thanks for tackling this,

>

> Patrick