On Sep 12, 2012, at 6:54 AM, Simon Pietro Romano <[email protected]> wrote:
> **Requirement 07-09**: The deployment of the tools here MUST take > into account making the tools accessible to as many IETF attendees as > possible. Such deployment is likely to include technical > accommodations for those with visual and hearing disabilities. > > > Agreed. But this formulation sounds a bit too generic. What kind of > accommodations do you have in mind? As an example, for deaf people, you might > be thinking of remote transcription services like "Remote CART" > (Communication Access Real-time Translation) captioning, perhaps based on > standards like XEP-0301 (Real-Time Text for XMPP -- > http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0301.html). In any case, I would make this > part more explicit. The community didn't give an explicit set of accommodations; it expressed a general goal. This community has little practice in dealing with accommodating disabilities ahead of time, but reasonable practice of doing it when it is needed. Is your concern that we would miss a particular set of disabilities that are important? --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ NOTE WELL: This list operates according to http://mipassoc.org/dkim/ietf-list-rules.html. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet
