- From: Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL <ryladog@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:06:32 -0500
- To: "'Janina Sajka'" <janina@rednote.net>, "'Accessible Platform Architectures Administration'" <public-apa-admin@w3.org>
+1 * katie * Katie Haritos-Shea Principal ICT Accessibility Architect (WCAG/Section 508/ADA/AODA) Cell: 703-371-5545 | ryladog@gmail.com | Oakton, VA | LinkedIn Profile | Office: 703-371-5545 | @ryladog NOTE: The content of this email should be construed to always be an expression of my own personal independent opinion, unless I identify that I am speaking on behalf of Knowbility, as their AC Rep at the W3C - and - that my personal email never expresses the opinion of my employer, Deque Systems. -----Original Message----- From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina@rednote.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 9:17 AM To: Accessible Platform Architectures Administration <public-apa-admin@w3.org> Subject: 48-Hour Call for Consensus (CfC): TV Remote Control API Comments Colleagues: This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to the Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group on our review of the TV Remote Control API specification as detailed below. I have endeavored to incorporate such API related comments as we've recieved on an earlier draft comment beginning at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-apa/2017Feb/0019.html <Begin Draft Comment> The Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group makes the following comments on the draft TV Control API specification at: https://www.w3.org/tr/tvcontrol-api/ We appreciate that an API for TV remote control could be utilized for enabling accessible alternative Web applications to provide radio and TV services to users with disabilities who may find it difficult or impossible to operate any user interface supplied with a particular hardware device. This is an inherent accessibility strength for any API that provides for sufficient feature support. Regretably, we believe the current TV Remote Control API as currently defined lacks required accessibility feature support. * alternative media support We would draw your attention to the multiple alternative media formats that are used by persons with disabilities as set forth in our W3C Note publication: "Media Accessibility User Requirements (MAUR)" available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/media-accessibility-reqs Our reading of the Tv Control API draft finds no way for users to learn of the presence of any MAUR identified alternative media with any particular TV content, nor any means to request display of alternative content. This is a fundamental accessibility requirement on TV Controls and we believe it must be factored into this specification. * Alternative Media on Second Screen Devices APA's predecessor Working Group, Protocols and Formats WG provided use cases and requirements to the Second Screen Working Group on how alternative media might be directed to second screen devices. We believe support for directing alternative video, audio, and/or text to secondary devices, as described in the MAUR, is a fundamental accessibility requirement on TV Controls and should be supported in this API. * Legal Requirements The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. has explicit requirements on how alternative media are to be exposed to consumers. Developers should be flagged most especially on the requirement that captioning must be enableable by top level controls. These FCC requirements implement provisions of a U.S. law known as the "Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act" as explained by the FCC at: https://www.fcc.gov/general/twenty-first-century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-0#block-menu-block-4 The FCC's regulations pertinent to this specification were published in December 2016 in the document: "Accessibility Requirements for Television and Set-Top Box Controls, Menus, and Program Guides" available at: PDF: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-16-1416A1.pdf MS-Word: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-16-1416A1.docx Also relevant is the document "Display of Captioning on Equipment Used to View Video Programming" available at: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/closed-captioning-display-requirements-equipment#block-menu-block-4 <End Draft Comment> * ACTION TO TAKE This CfC is now open for objection, comment, as well as statements of support via email. Silence will be interpreted as support, though messages of support are certainly welcome. If you object to this proposed action, or have comments concerning this proposal, please respond by replying on list to this message no later than 23:59 (Midnight) Boston Time, Tuesday 28 February. Janina -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
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