Multimedia Purchasing Requirements

Response Requirements

Accessibility to people with disabilities is a required feature of the purchased product. Product accessibility will be evaluated based on the responses to the accessibility requirements checklist included as a part of this RFP. Products that meet the accessibility requirements or have a commitment to meet both the required and desired accessibility features will be given priority over proposals that do not meet the requirements or do not state an interest to meet the requirements in future releases of the product or service. If your products currently do not meet the accessibility requirements, you are still encouraged to submit a proposal if you state a commitment and schedule to include the requirements in future releases. These requirements are based on the United States Federal Section 508 Information Technology Accessibility Standards and W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Double-A web accessibility requirements.

¹Priority

Priority identifies a required feature from a feature that is highly desired.

• D: Desirable feature
• R: Required feature

²Response Code

The following table of codes must be used in responding to this RFP:

• A: Standard
• B: Requires non-code modification
• C: Requires code modification
• D: Avail. In Release xx.xx expected mm/yyyy
• E: Can't be met

³Comments

Comments should be used provide more detailed description of accessibility features for the each requirement. For example first version feature appeared, testing with people with disabilities, participaiton in accessibility standards groups, and etc..

Electronic Equipment Purchasing Requirements

Ref	Description	Priority1	Response Code2	Comments3
E.1	TV Support for Closed Captioning All analog and Digital 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. Show E.1 References Section 508 1194.23 (a) Telecommunications products or systems which provide a function allowing voice communication and which do not themselves provide a TTY functionality shall provide a standard non-acoustic connection point for TTYs. Microphones shall be capable of being turned on and off to allow the user to intermix speech with TTY use. WCAG 1.0 None \IWAS 1.8 None	R
M.2	TV Support for Audio Descriptions Television tuners, including tuner cards for use in computers, shall be equipped with secondary audio program playback circuitry. Show M.2 References Section 508 1194.23(b) Telecommunications products which include voice communication functionality shall support all commonly used cross-manufacturer non-proprietary standard TTY signal protocols. WCAG 1.0 None \IWAS 1.8 None	R
M.3	Audio and Video Materials need to have Captioning All instructional, promotional, training and informational video and multimedia productions regardless of format, that contain speech or other audio information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be open or closed captioned. Show M.3 References Section 508 1194.23(c) Voice mail, auto-attendant, and interactive voice response telecommunications systems shall be usable by TTY users with their TTYs. WCAG 1.0 None \IWAS 1.8 None	R
M.4	Audio and Video Materials need to have Audio Descriptions All instructional, promotional, training and informational video and multimedia productions regardless of format, that contain visual information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be audio described. Show M.4 References Section 508 1194.23(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. WCAG 1.0 None \IWAS 1.8 None	D
M.5	User Control over Description Rendering Display or presentation of alternate text presentation or audio descriptions shall be user-selectable unless permanent. Show M.5 References Section 508 1194.23(e) Where provided, caller identification and similar telecommunications functions shall also be available for users of TTYs, and for users who cannot see displays. WCAG 1.0 None \IWAS 1.8 None	D