Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) BlackBerry Devices PDF Manual

This report evaluates BlackBerry® devices relative to disability access requirements of Section 508 of the 1998 US Workforce Reinvestment Act which amended the 1973 Rehabilitation Act (36CFR 1194). The Information Technology Industry Council (ITIC) Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is used to summarize the findings of this evaluation.

This report is pertinent against the following BlackBerry devices commercially available at the time of this report: BlackBerry 7100g, BlackBerry 7100i, BlackBerry 7100r, BlackBerry 7100t, BlackBerry 7100v, BlackBerry 7105t, BlackBerry 7130c, BlackBerry 7130e, BlackBerry 7130g, BlackBerry 7230, BlackBerry 7250, BlackBerry 7280, BlackBerry 7290, BlackBerry 7510, BlackBerry 7520, BlackBerry 7730, BlackBerry 7750, BlackBerry 7780,
BlackBerry 8100, BlackBerry 8110, BlackBerry 8130, BlackBerry 8300, BlackBerry 8310, BlackBerry 8320, BlackBerry 8330, BlackBerry 8700c, BlackBerry 8700g, BlackBerry 8700r, BlackBerry 8703e, BlackBerry 8705g, BlackBerry 8707g, BlackBerry 8800, BlackBerry 8820, and BlackBerry 8830.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

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December 23, 2009 | Posted in BlackBerry

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