Telecom Report 2007-04-18
Template for TEITAC subcommittee reports, 2nd drafts (due 4/18/07)
Please submit this draft as cumulative – show the complete draft to date, not just changes from the first draft.
I. Material which can be described as “Changes to Existing Provisions”
- Modification – Material which modifies existing provisions.
- Rationale – Why is this change suggested?
- Estimate Economic Assessment. This field should contain the Subcommittee’s rough guess of expense to implement a revised provision. These changes should be measured from the current 508 standard only. For example, if the provision is not different, there is no net economic impact. Code as:
- “0” for negligible economic impact;
- “+” for minor economic impact;
- “++” for significant economic impact.
| Current provision | Keep current language? | Change in jurisdiction? | Modification | Rationale: Why is this change suggested? | Economic Assessment |
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| 1194.23(a) | no | no | (a) Telecommunications products and other products capable of providing real-time voice communications and do not themselves provide TTY or other real-time text conversation functionality:
| Is there a legal def of real-time comm? Proposed Definition: Two-way communcations that employ transmission of conversational, remote interactions wherein the characters are transmitted w/in 1 sec. of time created. | |
| 1194.23(b) | no | no | (b) Products that provide real-time voice conversation text functionality shall do so in the standard format that is supported for that transport medium.
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| 1194.23(c) | no | no | (c) Voice mail, messaging, auto-attendant, and interactive voice response telecommunications systems shall:
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| 1194.23(d) | yes | no | (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. | n/a | 0 |
| 1194.23(e) | no | no | (e) Where provided, visual interfaces for telecommunications status information such as caller identification and similar telecommunications functions as part of interactive voice response systems or equivalents shall also be available for users of TTYs or other text conversation systems, and for users who cannot see displays and shall meet all accessibility provisions for software and content. | Issue: Does mute have to be its own button, not a function softkey? | |
| 1194.23(f) | no | no | (f) For receive transmitted voice signals,
OR
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| 1194.23(g) | no | no | (g) If the telecommunications product allows a user to adjust the receive volume, a function shall be provided to automatically reset the volume to a safe level after every use if the volume is capable of greater than 18 dB of gain along with an option for user override of that automatic default. | ||
| 1194.23(h) | no | no | (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 that allows the user of such technologies to effectively utilize the telecommunication product. This guideline shall apply to wireless, wireline, cordless and Bluetooth ?? applications. | ||
| 1194.23(i) | yes | no | (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. | 0 | |
| 1194.23(j) | yes | no | (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. Firewalls, routers, gateways and other products that pass real-time voice communication shall also pass real-time text communication signals (including mixed voice & real-time text) that are standard for that technology platform without distortion or error beyond 1%.
NOTE: Only phones that are passing text signals onto another device, e.g. TTY, would be subject to this provision. | ||
| 1194.24(k) | YES | | Moved to HARDWARE |
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II. New Provisions
| New provision | Rationale: What issue does this provision address? | Economic Assessment |
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(x) The user interface of IP terminals that provide real-time voice communication shall meet the following provisions:
| IP version of 1194.23(a) | Cheaper, easier to do than hardware to t/c products. |
(x) Systems that support real-time voice communication shall support at least one standard (for the system) means for real time text communication that is supported by all terminal, router, gateway and other products on that system, and that meets the following requirements:
| IP version of 1194.23(b) |
III. Other Material
A. Recommendations on organization of the provisions
B1. Issues this subcommittee has not yet addressed, but which should be addressed.
- the 255 provisions. They overlap with 508 almost exactly but we have not yet looked at them specifically. Need to if we are to have harmonization. Access Board and US Gov should at least harmonize with itself.
B2. Issues this subcommittee is not addressing, but which should be addressed.
C. Recommendations regarding process: the work of the subcommittees, the whole Committee, liaison with the Access Board, etc.
