IEC TR 62678:2010

IEC/TR 62678 ®
Edition 1.0 2010-10
TECHNICAL
REPORT
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Audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment activities and
considerations related to accessibility and usability

IEC/TR 62678:2010(E)
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IEC/TR 62678 ®
Edition 1.0 2010-10
TECHNICAL
REPORT
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inside
Audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment activities and
considerations related to accessibility and usability

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD.4
INTRODUCTION.6
1 Scope.7
2 Normative references .7
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations .7
3.1 Terms and definitions .7
3.2 Abbreviations .8
4 Applications of terms and definitions .9
4.1 Applications and intentions.9
4.2 Applications of the terms: universal design, barrier-free design, accessibility,
and disability in Japan.10
4.3 Application of the term: barrier-free design in China .12
4.4 User needs and accessibility in the U.S. .12
4.5 Universal design and design-for-all in Germany.13
4.6 French application of the terms usability and accessibility .13
4.7 Use of terms and definitions for disability and disabled person in the UK.13
4.8 Interchangeability of terms .14
5 Organizations and topic areas .14
5.1 Priorities.14
5.2 Resources for standards development.14
6 Completed standards, technical reports, and projects .19
6.1 Compilation .19
6.2 Tabular list .19
7 User needs.21
7.1 A range of user needs extracted from ISO/IEC TR 29138-1:2009 .21
7.2 Tabular list .21
8 Demographics .27
8.1 Population growth .27
8.2 Reports from various nations.27
9 Public policies .27
9.1 Global policy .27
9.2 Domestic policy .27
10 Checklist of accessibility and usability considerations.28
11 Summary.29
11.1 Use of terms and checklist .29
11.2 User needs and scenarios .30
Annex A (informative) UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.31
Annex B (informative) Comments about some IEC TC 100 standards which contain
accessibility considerations.
Annex C (informative) Research projects in Europe .34
Bibliography.40

Figure 1 – People and their particular user needs .

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Table 1 – Organizations and topic areas .15
Table 2 – Completed standards, technical reports, and projects.19
Table 3 – User needs (from ISO/IEC TR 29138-1:2009).22
Table 4 – Checklist of accessibility and usability considerations .29

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AUDIO, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT
ACTIVITIES AND CONSIDERATIONS RELATED TO
ACCESSIBILITY AND USABILITY
FOREWORD
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IEC 62678, which is a technical report, has been prepared by IEC technical committee 100:
Audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment.
The text of this technical report is based on the following documents:
Enquiry draft Report on voting
100/1688/DTR 100/1737/RVC
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report on voting indicated in the above table.

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INTRODUCTION
With an objective to research, review, and consider accessibility and usability and to start the
project, a survey was designed and distributed to the IEC TC100 P-members to obtain
information about the related issues, public policies, and activities. In April 2008, the survey
results were reported to the AGS (Bangkok, Thailand) and in November, 2008 the first in-
person meeting of the Project Team was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Subsequently, four global teleconferences, numerous electronic mail exchanges, and use of
the IEC on-line Collaboration Tools located at www.iec.ch occurred. The Project Team also
held an in-person meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel in October 2009. As a result of these sessions,
the Project Team produced this TR which attempts to explain the possible relevance of
accessibility and usability to the IEC TC100 programme of work. Every aspect of this TR
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