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

[Humbert, Joseph A]

I made changes based on Jayme's comments.  Please keep the revisions (particularly grammar or spelling , which are not my strong suit) coming.  

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

- Joe


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Thankx Jayme.  That will help me redraft the comment.

- Joe


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From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Jayme Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 3:05 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] ATHEN's response to the section 508 update

Hello all, Gaeir is currently en route to another destination. I saw this, and thought I might take a chance at adding some clarification...

Gaeir proposed:

> 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."


I believe the main point of the example Gaeir provided is that when DVD technology was first developed, captioning was not taken into consideration. This lack of consideration led to multiple implementations of providing textual information on-screen by DVD technology manufacturers, resulting in ambiguity in both the names for these implementations (subtitles, subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, captions, etc.) and the underlying technologies (Line-21 vs. 
all the digital captioning and subtitle formats we've seen). For the consumer, this resulted in uncertainty of exactly what is being provided when a DVD is labeled as being "captioned", "subtitled", or other.

Bottom line: this is not referring to a deficiency of accessibility in the DVD standard, rather it is referring to the problems which can arise when accessibility is not taken into consideration during the design of electronic information.

Hope that helps (and that I am interpreting correctly)-

Jayme Johnson
Web Accessibility Instructor
High Tech Center Training Unit
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