| Criteria | Level of Support & Supporting Features | Remarks and Explanations |
|---|---|---|
| Section 1194.21 Software Applications and Operating Systems | Supports | eText uses keyboard shortcuts to make study tools accessible. These shortcuts are unique to the platform and will not intefere with any other settings on the browser or system level. Any icons or images in the interface have equivalent text descriptions. |
| Section 1194.22 Web-based Internet Information and Applications | Supports | eText is completely browser-based and gives complete control to the user. All interfaces and content are accessible by keyboard and with assistive technology, be it a separate product, or at the browser or system level. Users control color, size, and contrast. Clean HTML5 markup means easy jumping between elements using a screen reader. |
| Section 1194.23 Telecommunications Products | Not Applicable | |
| Section 1194.24 Video and Multi-media Products | Not Applicable | |
| Section 1194.25 Self-Contained, Closed Products | Supports | All of eText's features are inherently accessible, though, like any web-based application, their use is facilitated by assistive technology at the system or browser level. |
| Section 1194.26 Desktop and Portable Computers | Not Applicable | |
| Section 1194.31 Functional Performance Criteria | Supports | eText provides alt text and captioning for all content. All features and content can be used equally regardless of the user's visual, auditory, or motor abilities. |
| Section 1194.41 Information, Documentation and Support | Supports | All documentation is accessible with full captions and transcripts, or is written in clean HTML for easy navigation. |
| Criteria | Level of Support & Supporting Features | Remarks and Explanations |
|---|---|---|
| (a) When software is designed to run on a system that has a keyboard, product functions shall be executable from a keyboard where the function itself or the result of performing a function can be discerned textually. | Supports | eText's interface and content are completely accessible through keyboard control. Shortcuts unique to the platform can be used to perform all study functions. |
| (b) Applications shall not disrupt or disable activated features of other products that are identified as accessibility features, where those features are developed and documented according to industry standards. Applications also shall not disrupt or disable activated features of any operating system that are identified as accessibility features where the application programming interface for those accessibility features has been documented by the manufacturer of the operating system and is available to the product developer. | Supports | eText is browser based. Its keyboard shortcuts do not override or interfere with those already provided by major assistive technology. |
| (c) A well-defined on-screen indication of the current focus shall be provided that moves among interactive interface elements as the input focus changes. The focus shall be programmatically exposed so that Assistive Technology can track focus and focus changes. | Supports | Focus is noted with a dashed border around the focused element. Screen readers will note which element has focus. |
| (d) Sufficient information about a user interface element including the identity, operation and state of the element shall be available to Assistive Technology. When an image represents a program element, the information conveyed by the image must also be available in text. | Supports | Alt text and ARIA tags give information about all elements of the eText interface. |
| (e) When bitmap images are used to identify controls, status indicators, or other programmatic elements, the meaning assigned to those images shall be consistent throughout an application' s performance. | Supports | eText's iconography, and alternative descriptions thereof, is consistent throughout the platform. |
| (f) Textual information shall be provided through operating system functions for displaying text. The minimum information that shall be made available is text content, text input caret location, and text attributes. | Supports | JavaScript alerts are used only occasionally. |
| (g) Applications shall not override user selected contrast and color selections and other individual display attributes. | Supports | eText has its own personalization settings, but will retain settings applied at the browser or system level. |
| (h) When animation is displayed, the information shall be displayable in at least one non-animated presentation mode at the option of the user. | Not Applicable | Animations are not used in eText's interface. If a textbook's content uses animations, equivalent alt text will be provided. |
| (i) Color coding shall not be used as the only means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element. | Supports | eText uses underlines, borders, and contrast in addition to color. No element is distinguished only by color. |
| (j) When a product permits a user to adjust color and contrast settings, a variety of color selections capable of producing a range of contrast levels shall be provided. | Supports | eText offers several reading interface themes, including a high contrast option. All themes have appropriate contrast for readability. |
| (k) Software shall not use flashing or blinking text, objects, or other elements having a flash or blink frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz. | Supports | eText uses no flashing or blinking objects. |
| (l) When electronic forms are used, the form shall allow people using Assistive Technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues. | Supports | Any forms on eText are web based, using HTML5 with captioning and ARIA labels. |
| Criteria | Level of Support & Supporting Features | Remarks and Explanations |
|---|---|---|
| (a) A text equivalent for every non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content). | Supports | All visual elements offer appropriate alt text. |
| (b) Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation. | Supports | eText offers captioning and transcripts for all videos, which can be read synchronized or at the user's own pace. |
| (c) Web pages shall be designed so that all information conveyed with color is also available without color, for example from context or markup. | Supports | eText's HTML5 structure separates content from style. All content will be readable if displayed in a browser's plain-text view. |
| (d) Documents shall be organized so they are readable without requiring an associated style sheet. | Supports | Styles are completely separate and not required to view or understand any content. |
| (e) Redundant text links shall be provided for each active region of a server-side image map. | Not Applicable | eText uses no image maps. |
| (f) Client-side image maps shall be provided instead of server-side image maps except where the regions cannot be defined with an available geometric shape. | Not Applicable | eText uses no image maps. |
| (g) Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables. | Supports | Table heads are denoted with correct markup. |
| (h) Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers. | Supports | eText's tables are all marked with table headings, captions, thead, and tbody. |
| (i) Frames shall be titled with text that facilitates frame identification and navigation | Supports | eText uses frames to integrate quizzes and class content from Learning Management Systems. |
| (j) Pages shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz. | Supports | eText is not designed to flicker brightly. |
| (k) A text-only page, with equivalent information or functionality, shall be provided to make a web site comply with the provisions of this part, when compliance cannot be accomplished in any other way. The content of the text-only page shall be updated whenever the primary page changes. | Supports through Equivalent Facilitation | eText's pages can easily be stripped to plain text by a browser's function. Markup is structured cleanly so that browser-generated plain text pages are easily read and navigated by assistive technology. |
| (l) When pages utilize scripting languages to display content, or to create interface elements, the information provided by the script shall be identified with functional text that can be read by Assistive Technology. | Supports | Any scripts initiated by eText will notify the user of their effect and shift focus appropriately. |
| (m) When a web page requires that an applet, plug-in or other application be present on the client system to interpret page content, the page must provide a link to a plug-in or applet that complies with 1194.21(a) through (l). | Not Applicable | eText is entirely browser based and requires no plug-ins. |
| (n) When electronic forms are designed to be completed on-line, the form shall allow people using Assistive Technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues. | Supports | Any forms on eText are web based, using HTML5 with captioning and ARIA labels. |
| (o) A method shall be provided that permits users to skip repetitive navigation links. | Supports | eText offers a skip link, and is structured in clean markup which can easily and quickly be navigated by screen readers. |
| (p) When a timed response is required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more time is required. | Not Applicable | There are no situations in which eText requires a timed response. |
| Criteria | Level of Support & Supporting Features | Remarks and Explanations |
|---|---|---|
| (a) Telecommunications products or systems which provide a function allowing voice communication and which do not themselves provide a TTY functionality shall provide a standard non-acoustic connection point for TTYs. Microphones shall be capable of being turned on and off to allow the user to intermix speech with TTY use. | Not Applicable | |
| (b) Telecommunications products which include voice communication functionality shall support all commonly used cross-manufacturer non-proprietary standard TTY signal protocols. | Not Applicable | |
| (c) Voice mail, auto-attendant, and interactive voice response telecommunications systems shall be usable by TTY users with their TTYs. | Not Applicable | |
| (d) Voice mail, messaging, auto-attendant, and interactive voice response telecommunications systems that require a response from a user within a time interval, shall give an alert when the time interval is about to run out, and shall provide sufficient time for the user to indicate more time is required. | Not Applicable | |
| (e) Where provided, caller identification and similar telecommunications functions shall also be available for users of TTYs, and for users who cannot see displays. | Not Applicable | |
| (f) For transmitted voice signals, telecommunications products shall provide a gain adjustable up to a minimum of 20 dB. For incremental volume control, at least one intermediate step of 12 dB of gain shall be provided. | Not Applicable | |
| (g) If the telecommunications product allows a user to adjust the receive volume, a function shall be provided to automatically reset the volume to the default level after every use. | Not Applicable | |
| (h) Where a telecommunications product delivers output by an audio transducer which is normally held up to the ear, a means for effective magnetic wireless coupling to hearing technologies shall be provided. | Not Applicable | |
| (i) Interference to hearing technologies (including hearing aids, cochlear implants, and assistive listening devices) shall be reduced to the lowest possible level that allows a user of hearing technologies to utilize the telecommunications product. | Not Applicable | |
| (j) Products that transmit or conduct information or communication, shall pass through cross-manufacturer, non-proprietary, industry-standard codes, translation protocols, formats or other information necessary to provide the information or communication in a usable format. Technologies which use encoding, signal compression, format transformation, or similar techniques shall not remove information needed for access or shall restore it upon delivery. | Not Applicable | |
| (k)(1) Products which have mechanically operated controls or keys shall comply with the following: Controls and Keys shall be tactilely discernible without activating the controls or keys. | Not Applicable | |
| (k)(2) Products which have mechanically operated controls or keys shall comply with the following: Controls and Keys shall be operable with one hand and shall not require tight grasping, pinching, twisting of the wrist. The force required to activate contro ls and keys shall be 5 lbs. (22.2N) maximum. | Not Applicable | |
| (k)(3) Products which have mechanically operated controls or keys shall comply with the following: If key repeat is supported, the delay before repeat shall be adjustable to at least 2 seconds. Key repeat rate shall be adjustable to 2 seconds per character. | Not Applicable | |
| (k)(4) Products which have mechanically operated controls or keys shall comply with the following: The status of all locking or toggle controls or keys shall be visually discernible, and discernible either through touch or sound. | Not Applicable |
| Criteria | Level of Support & Supporting Features | Remarks and Explanations |
|---|---|---|
| (a) All analog television displays 13 inches and larger, and computer equipment that includes analog television receiver or display circuitry, shall be equipped with caption decoder circuitry which appropriately receives, decodes, and displays closed captions from broadcast, cable, videotape, and DVD signals. As soon as practicable, but not later than July 1, 2002, widescreen digital television (DTV) displays measuring at least 7.8 inches vertically, DTV sets with conventional displays measuring at least 13 inches vertically, and stand- alone DTV tuners, whether or not they are marketed with display screens, and computer equipment that includes DTV receiver or display circuitry, shall be equipped with caption decoder circuitry which appropriately receives, decodes, and displays closed captions from broadcast, cable, videotape, and DVD signals. | Not Applicable | |
| (b) Television tuners, including tuner cards for use in computers, shall be equipped with secondary audio program playback circuitry. | Not Applicable | |
| (c) All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission, regardless of format, that contain speech or other audio information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be open or closed captioned. | Not Applicable | |
| (d) All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission, regardless of format, that contain visual information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be audio described. | Not Applicable | |
| (e) Display or presentation of alternate text presentation or audio descriptions shall be user-selectable unless permanent. | Not Applicable |
| Criteria | Level of Support & Supporting Features | Remarks and Explanations |
|---|---|---|
| (a) Self contained products shall be usable by people with disabilities without requiring an end-user to attach Assistive Technology to the product. Personal headsets for private listening are not Assistive Technology. | Supports | eText is accessible out-of-the-box. It can be fully customized, and can work with browser-based or free assistive technology. |
| (b) When a timed response is required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more time is required. | Not Applicable | There are no situations in which eText requires a timed response. |
| (c) Where a product utilizes touchscreens or contact-sensitive controls, an input method shall be provided that complies with 1194.23 (k) (1) thro ugh (4). | Not Applicable | |
| (d) When biometric forms of user identification or control are used, an alternative form of identification or activation, which does not require the user to possess particular biological characteristics, shall also be provided. | Not Applicable | |
| (e) When products provide auditory output, the audio signal shall be provided at a standard signal level through an industry standard connector that will allow for private listening. The product must provide the ability to interrupt, pause, and restart the audio at anytime. | Supports | The only audio in eText comes from videos and multimedia within textbooks. This audio can be controlled at all times. |
| (f) When products deliver voice output in a public area, incremental volume control shall be provided with output amplification up to a level of at least 65 dB. Where the ambient noise level of the environment is above 45 dB, a volume gain o f at least 20 dB above the ambient level shall be user selectable. A function shall be provided to automatically reset the volume to the default level after every use. | Not Applicable | |
| (g) Color coding shall not be used as the only means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element. | Supports | eText uses underlines, borders, and contrast in addition to color. No element is distinguished only by color. |
| (h) When a product permits a user to adjust color and contrast settings, a range of color selections capable of producing a variety of contrast levels shall be provided. | Supports | All eText themes have appropriate contrast levels for readability, and a high contrast theme is provided. |
| (i) Products shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz. | Supports | eText does not cause any screen flickering. |
| (j) (1) Products which are freestanding, non-portable, and intended to be used in one location and which have operable controls shall comply with the following: The position of any operable control shall be determined with respect to a vertical plane, which is 48 inches in length, centered on the operable control, and at the maximum protrusion of the product within the 48 inch length on products which are freestanding, non-portable, and intended to be used in one location and which have operable controls. | Not Applicable | |
| (j)(2) Products which are freestanding, non-portable, and intended to be used in one location and which have operable co ntrols shall comply with the following: Where any operable control is 10 inches or less behind the reference plane, the height shall be 54 inches maximum and 15 inches minimum above the floor. | Not Applicable | |
| (j)(3) Products which are freestanding, non-portable, and intended to be used in one location and which have operable controls shall comply with the following: Where any operable control is more than 10 inches and not more than 24 inches behind the reference plane, the height shall be 46 inches maximum and 15 inches minimum above the floor. | Not Applicable | |
| (j)(4) Products which are freestanding, non-portable, and intended to be used in one location and which have operable controls shall comply with the following: Operable controls shall not be more than 24 inches behind the reference plane. | Not Applicable |
| Criteria | Level of Support & Supporting Features | Remarks and Explanations |
|---|---|---|
| (a) All mechanically operated controls and keys shall comply with 1194.23 (k) (1) through (4). | Not Applicable | |
| (b) If a product utilizes touchscreens or touch-operated controls, an input method shall be provided that complies with 1194.23 (k) (1) through (4). | Not Applicable | |
| (c) When biometric forms of user identification or control are used, an alternative form of identification or activation, which does not require the user to possess particular biological characteristics, shall also be provided. | Not Applicable | |
| (d) Where provided, at least one of each type of expansion slots, ports and connectors shall comply with publicly available industry standards | Not Applicable |
| Criteria | Level of Support & Supporting Features | Remarks and Explanations |
|---|---|---|
| (a) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user vision shall be provided, or support for Assistive Technology used by people who are blind or visually impaired shall be provided. | Supports | eText was developed from the ground up to work with screen readers. Users without vision can use all features and content. |
| (b) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require visual acuity greater than 20/70 shall be provided in audio and enlarged print output working together or independently, or support for Assistive Technology used by people who are visually impaired shall be provided. | Supports | eText settings allow large text and high contrast modes for all content. |
| (c) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user hearing shall be provided, or support for Assistive Technology used by people who are deaf or hard of hearing shall be provided | Supports | All eText videos and multimedia offer captions and transcripts. |
| (d) Where audio information is important for the use of a product, at least one mode of operation and information retrieval shall be provided in an enhanced auditory fashion, or support for assistive hearing devices shall be provided. | Not Applicable | eText's interface uses no sound cues. Sound is not required to use any part of the product. |
| (e) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user speech shall be provided, or support for Assistive Technology used by people with disabilities shall be provided. | Supports | Speech is not required to use eText. Assistive technologies and keyboard control are fully supported for interface and all content. |
| (f) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require fine motor control or simultaneous actions and that is operable with limited reach and strength shall be provided. | Supports | Keyboard controls can perform every function in eText. All study tools can be used with keyboard shortcuts. All content can be quickly navigated. |
| Criteria | Level of Support & Supporting Features | Remarks and Explanations |
|---|---|---|
| (a) Product support documentation provided to end-users shall be made available in alternate formats upon request, at no additional charge | Supports | All eText documentation is captioned and accessible to assistive technology. Braille copies of materials are available upon request. |
| (b) End-users shall have access to a description of the accessibility and compatibility features of products in alternate formats or alternate methods upon request, at no additional charge. | Supports | All eText documentation is captioned and accessible to assistive technology. Braille copies of materials are available upon request. |
| (c) Support services for products shall accommodate the communication needs of end-users with disabilities. | Supports | eText is built to accomodate all users and as many assistive technologies as possible. |