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Able Web Editor
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The purpose of the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, or VPAT, is to assist Federal contracting officials and other buyers in making preliminary assessments regarding the availability of commercial "Electronic and Information Technology" products and services with features that support accessibility.
The first table of the Template provides a summary view of the section 508 Standards. The subsequent tables provide more detailed views of each subsection. There are three columns in each table. Column one of the Summary Table describes the subsections of subparts B and C of the Standards. The second column describes the supporting features of the product or refers you to the corresponding detailed table, "e.g., equivalent facilitation." The third column contains any additional remarks and explanations regarding the product. In the subsequent tables, the first column contains the lettered paragraphs of the subsections. The second column describes the supporting features of the product with regard to that paragraph. The third column contains any additional remarks and explanations regarding the product.
Date: August 1, 2004
Name of Product: Able Web Editor
Contact for more Information:
Don at deofsf.com
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Summary Table
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| Criteria | Supporting Features | Remarks and explanations |
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| Section 1194.21 Software Applications and Operating Systems | Supports | |
Section 1194.22 Web-based Internet Information and Applications |
Supports | |
| Section 1194.23 Telecommunications Products | Not Applicable | This is not a Telecommunications Product |
| Section 1194.24 Video and Multi-media Products | Not Applicable | This is not a Video or Multi-media Product |
| Section 1194.25 Self-Contained, Closed Products | Not Applicable | This is not a Self-Contained, Closed Product |
| Section 1194.26 Desktop and Portable Computers | Not Applicable | This is not a Desktop or Portable Computers |
| Section 1194.31 Functional Performance Criteria | Supports | |
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Section 1194.21 Software Applications and Operating Systems - Detail
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| Criteria | Supporting Features | Remarks and explanations |
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| (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 | All program functions are accessible from the keyboard. The use of a mouse is optional. |
| (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 | |
| (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 | When a function has the focus, it is identified with descriptive text in the Dialog Box. |
| (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 | All user interface elements are described in web pages and they are available to Assistive Technology that has the capability of reading web pages. |
| (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 | Bitmap images of controls are consistent with those in general use by programs that run using the Microsoft Operating Systems. |
| (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 | All textual information is displayed in web pages. |
| (g) Applications shall not override user selected contrast and color selections and other individual display attributes. | Supports | |
| (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 | No animation is used. |
| (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 | |
| (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 | The Option Dialog Box allows the user to specify colors. |
| (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 | The only blinking occurs in the optional description of Internet Explorer's Marquee Tag which is in a separate web page with a clear warning about its non-compliance with the 508 standard.. |
| (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 | All forms are fully accessible from the keyboard and have a consistent textual descripition of the form element that has the focus. |
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Section 1194.22 Web-based Internet information and applications - Detail
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| Criteria | Supporting Features | Remarks and explanations |
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| (a) A text equivalent for every non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content). | Supports | |
| (b) Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation. | Not Applicable | No multimedia presentations are used. |
| (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 | |
| (d) Documents shall be organized so they are readable without requiring an associated style sheet. | Supports | |
| (e) Redundant text links shall be provided for each active region of a server-side image map. | Not Applicable | No server-side image maps are used. |
| (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. | Supports | |
| (g) Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables. | Supports | |
| (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 | |
| (i) Frames shall be titled with text that facilitates frame identification and navigation | Supports | |
| (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 | The only blinking occurs in the optional description of Internet Explorer's Marquee Tag which is in a separate web page with a clear warning about its potential non-compliance with the 508 standard.. |
| (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. | Not Applicable | All information is displayed in web pages that may be read by Assitive 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 | Noscript explanations are included when required. |
| (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 | No applets or plug-ins are used. |
| (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 | All forms are fully accessible from the keyboard. |
| (o) A method shall be provided that permits users to skip repetitive navigation links. | Supports | Skip navigation images with appropriate Alt Tags are used where repetitive navigation links are used. |
| (p) When a timed response is required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more time is required. | Not Applicable | No timed responses are used. |
Note to 1194.22: The Board interprets paragraphs (a) through (k) of this section as consistent with the following priority 1 Checkpoints of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) (May 5 1999) published by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium: Paragraph (a) - 1.1, (b) - 1.4, (c) - 2.1, (d) - 6.1, (e) - 1.2, (f) - 9.1, (g) - 5.1, (h) - 5.2, (i) - 12.1, (j) - 7.1, (k) - 11.4.
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Section 1194.22 Functional Performance Criteria - Detail
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| Criteria | Supporting Features | Remarks and explanations |
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| (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 | All functions may be performed from the keyboard and all information is displayed in web pages so that existing Assistive Technology may be used by people who are blind or visually impaired. |
| (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 | All functions may be performed from the keyboard and all information is displayed in web pages so that existing Assistive Technology may be used by people who are blind or visually impaired. |
| (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 | Not Applicable | No sound is used. |
| (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 | No audio information is used. |
| (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. | Not Applicable | No speech is required. |
| (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 | All functions may be performed from the keyboard so that existing Assistive Technology may be used by people who have mobility limitations. |