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: November 28, 2012
Name of product: Adobe® Digital Editions 2.0 (OSX)
Contact for more information: access@adobe.com
Summary Table
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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 |
Features and functions of Digital Editions 2 are fully
operable using a keyboard alone.
However, some elements in the document content are not
operable using a keyboard alone, such as links.
Selecting text in order to add Highlights or Notes is not
possible using the 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 |
Digital Editions 2 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 |
Most user interface elements in the Digital Editions 2 interface
have a clear visual indication of focus that is programmatically exposed to
assistive technology.
However, there are some exceptions including:
When focus is on the page slider there is no clear visual
indication. There is no clear indication when focus is on the open document
in Read Mode. Some elements receive focus that have no functional or
informational use, such as the separator in the top bar. There is no visual
indication when focus is on the separator, but it is part of the tab order. |
(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 |
Elements in the Digital Editions user interface provide
sufficient information to assistive technologies.
There are buttons in the top bar that do not include
labels, but they are not functional elements. |
(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 within
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 |
Textual information is available to assistive technology
in Digital Editions 2. |
(g) Applications shall not override user selected contrast
and color selections and other individual display attributes. |
Supports |
Digital Editions 2 fully supports Mac OS color and
contrast settings. |
(h) When animation is displayed, the information shall be
displayable in at least one non-animated presentation mode at the option of
the user. |
Supports |
Digital Editions 2 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 with exceptions |
The Digital Editions 2 user interface does not use color
as the only means of conveying information with the exception of new
Bookshelves, which are indicated with a different color from existing
Bookshelves. |
(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. |
Not applicable |
Digital Editions 2 does not permit the user to adjust
color and contrast in the user interface. |
(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 |
Digital Editions 2 does not use flashing or blinking text,
objects, or other elements in the user interface. |
(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 |
Forms in the Digital Editions 2 interface can be completed
using assistive technology. |
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Section 1194.22 Web-based Internet information and applications — Detail
| Criteria |
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). |
Does not support |
Alternatives to non-text content are not available to
assistive technologies in Adobe Digital Editions 2. |
(b) Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia
presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation. |
Not applicable |
Digital Editions eBooks do not include multimedia. |
(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 |
Digital Editions 2 supports documents that meet this
requirement though authors need to verify that a document complies. |
(d) Documents shall be organized so they are readable
without requiring an associated style sheet. |
Supports |
Digital Editions 2 documents do not require an associated
style sheet for viewing. |
(e) Redundant text links shall be provided for each active
region of a server-side image map. |
Not applicable |
Digital Editions 2 does not include server-side 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 |
Digital Editions 2 does not include client-side image
maps. |
(g) Row and column headers shall be identified for data
tables. |
Does not
support |
Information about table rows and headers is not available to
assistive technologies in Digital Editions 2 |
(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. |
Does not support |
Information about table rows and headers
is not available to assistive technologies in Digital Editions 2. |
(i) Frames shall be titled with text that facilitates
frame identification and navigation |
Not applicable |
Digital Editions 2 does not include HTML frames. |
(j) Pages shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to
flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz. |
Not applicable |
Digital Editions 2 does not include animation. |
(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 |
Digital Editions 2 supports text-only
content. |
(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. |
Not applicable |
Digital Editions 2 does not include scripting languages to
display content. |
(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). |
Supports |
Accessing content in Digital Editions 2 does not require
any additional 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 |
Content in Digital Editions 2 does not include forms. |
(o) A method shall be provided that permits users to skip
repetitive navigation links. |
Supports with exceptions |
Links in content in Digital Editions 2 are not operable
using a keyboard alone. However, bookmarks and tables of contents do provide
a method to skip repetitive elements. |
(p) When a timed response is required, the user shall be
alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more time is required. |
Supports |
Content in Digital Editions 2 does not require timed
responses. |
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 1194.31 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. |
Supports with exceptions |
The Digital Editions 2 interface is fully operable using a
screen reader. However, role information about content elements such tables
and headings is not available to assistive technology.
VoiceOver reading controls are limited in Digital Editions
2 |
(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 |
Digital Editions 2 supports Screen Magnification and
modification of font sizes in 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 |
|
(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 |
Operations in the Digital Editions 2 interface do not
require fine motor control. |
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