ia070023
Date: November 15, 2007
Subject: STRAW POLL for ISO/IEC PDTR 29128-3- "Information Technology - Accessibility Considerations for People with Disabilities - Part 3: Guidance on User Needs Mapping"
Attachments: PDTR 29138-3
Comments Template
Response Due By: January 4, 2008
Return to: Tom Albin, (talbinus@comcast.net)
Dear Colleagues,
ISO/IEC PDTR 29138-3 - "Information Technology - Accessibility Considerations for People with Disabilities - Part 3: Guidance on User Needs Mapping" has now been officially released. This is the third of three Preliminary Draft Technical Reports (PDTRs).
The INCITS Study Group on Accessibility as US TAG to JTC1 Special Working Group on Accessibility needs to develop the US vote for each of these three documents.
Review, Comment and Request for Recommendation
Each voting member of the study group is requested to review the document and provide their organization's recommendation for the US vote. In addition, the comments template is to be used for your comments, if any.
All recommendations and comments should be returned to me (Tom Albin) by January 4, 2008.
The position options are:
Approve;
Approve with general, technical, editorial comments;
Disapprove, for reasons that are to be explained in an attached paper
with recommended wording, which, if accepted, would change the U.S. vote
to one of approval;
or Abstain
Development of US Vote
Study Group Meeting/Teleconference
In anticipation of a confirmed teleconference number, please plan to participate in a teleconference from 12 - 2 pm Central Standard Time, Friday January 11, 2008 to discuss each of the three documents and to develop the US vote regarding each document. The call in number will be sent by email reflector closer to the teleconference date.
The Straw Poll closes January 4, 2008. The JTC1 PDTR closing date is February 29, 2008.
The following document (PDTR 29138-3) will be posted to the INCITS Study
Group on Accessibility Document Register, at http://sg_access.incits.org/ia/iadocreg.htm