The purpose of the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template is to assist Federal contracting officials in making preliminary assessments regarding the availability of commercial Electronic and Information Technology products and services with features that support accessibility. It is assumed that offerers will provide additional contact information to facilitate more detailed inquiries.

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: May 6, 2013

Name of product: Adobe® Prelude® CC

Contact for more information: access@adobe.com

Summary Table

Guideline

Applicable

Compliance

Applicable

Supports with exceptions

Not applicable

Section 1194.23 Telecommunications Products

Not applicable

Section 1194.24 Video and Multimedia Products

Not applicable

Section 1194.25 Self-Contained, Closed Products

Not applicable

Section 1194.26 Desktop and Portable Computers

Not applicable

Applicable

Supports with exceptions

Applicable

Supports

  Section 1194.21 Software Applications and Operating Systems — Detail

Criteria

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 with exceptions

Keyboard shortcuts are provided for all menu commands, as well as for selecting and invoking tools, commands, and functions in Prelude CC. However, some commands and functions are not operable using a keyboard alone, including:

  • It is not possible to place focus in some panels and navigate through controls in the panels using the keyboard alone.

  • For example, in the Project panel it is not possible to move focus to the icon buttons such as New Bin and Clear Selected Rows using the keyboard alone.

  • In some panels, such as the Events panel, controls are not reachable using the keyboard alone.

  • Some controls in dialog boxes, such as the video device settings in the Preferences dialog, are not operable using a keyboard.

  • The expand/collapse icons in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box are not operable using a keyboard alone.

(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

Prelude CC does not interfere with or deactivate accessibility features of the operating system.

(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 with exceptions

With the exception of some controls in dialog boxes and panels, such as Check all and Uncheck All buttons in the Ingest dialog, most elements in the Prelude CC interface provide a well defined on-screen indication of focus.

When focus is on some controls in panels and dialog boxes, such as the list of rough cuts in the Project panel and controls in the Welcome screen, it is not programmatically exposed to assistive technology. Some elements (such as the time settings on the Timeline and Audio Mixer) have no hover state to indicate mouse 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 with exceptions

Most controls in dialog boxes in Prelude CC provide sufficient information to assistive technology with some exceptions including expand/collapse icons, some combo boxes and color pickers.

Documents and folders in the Thumbnail view in the Ingest dialog box do not provide sufficient information but a List view is available.

Some controls in panels do not provide sufficient information including the History panel and the Project panel. Text labels are available for all controls on mouse over but not to screen readers or keyboard users.

(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

Toolbars and other icons and images are consistent throughout the application.

(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 with exceptions

With the exception of text in tree controls in some dialog boxes, such as the Ingest dialog, textual information is programmatically exposed to assistive technologies.

(g) Applications shall not override user-selected contrast and color selections and other individual display attributes.

Does not support

With the exception of application menus and tooltips, Prelude CC does not support Windows High Contrast Mode.

(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

Prelude CC does not use animation in the user interface.

(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

The Prelude CC user interface does not use color as the only means of conveying information with some exceptions, including:

Colors can be used for markers but text is also available to explain the color coding.

(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 with exceptions

Prelude CC allows users to change the contrast settings of the interface, but while there are a variety of brightness settings there is no option to select different color combinations with different contrast levels.

(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 Prelude CC user interface does not use flashing or blinking text, objects, or other elements.

(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 with exceptions

Some controls in dialog boxes, such as the video device settings in the Preferences dialog, are not operable using a keyboard.

Many form fields in panels, such as the Unassociated Metadata panel, are not reachable with the keyboard alone.

Most controls in dialog boxes in Prelude CC provide sufficient information to assistive technology with some exceptions including expand/collapse icons, some combo boxes and color pickers.

It is not possible to place focus in some panels and navigate through controls in the panels using the keyboard alone.

Some controls in panels do not provide sufficient information including the Metadata panel and the Project panel.

  Section 1194.24 Video and Multimedia Products — Detail

Criteria

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

Prelude is part of video production process and captions can be added and edited in another part of that process.

(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

Prelude is part of video production process and audio description can be added and edited in another part of that process.

(e) Display or presentation of alternate text presentation or audio descriptions shall be user-selectable unless permanent.

Not applicable

Prelude is part of video production process and captions and audio descriptions can be added and edited in another part of that process.

  Section 1194.31 Functional Performance Criteria — Detail

Criteria

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.

Does not support

With the exception of application menus and some controls and elements, the Prelude CC user interface is not accessible to screen readers.

Some controls in dialog boxes, such as the Preferences dialog box, are keyboard accessible but do not provide labels to assistive technology.

Many controls in panels, such as the Events panel, are not reachable with the keyboard alone and do not provide sufficient information.

(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 with exceptions

Prelude CC supports the use of screen magnifiers but for some controls there is not a clear indication of current focus and focus is not exposed programmatically in some cases.

Prelude CC does not support Windows High Contrast Mode.

(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

(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.

Supports

(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

(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 with exceptions

Prelude CC supports accessibility features of the operating system such as Sticky Keys, which may be used during some editing operations that may require the use of keyboard modifiers and mouse selections.

However, some actions, such as expanding and collapsing the list in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog, may require fine motor control.

Section 1194.41 Information, Documentation, and Support — Detail  

Criteria

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

Adobe provides electronic versions of all product support documentation.

(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

Adobe provides information on accessibility features in the documentation. Electronic versions of all product support documentation are provided.

(c) Support services for products shall accommodate the communication needs of end-users with disabilities.

Supports

Product support for Adobe products is available in a variety of formats and from a number of online sources available from Adobe Systems.