Contribution to the develpment and maintainence of a Systems Integration Support resource should be designed into 508 standards.

["Jacobs, Steve I" <sj131264@exchange.DAYTONOH.NCR.com>]

Private industry is able to develop, procure, maintain (support) and use
electronic and information technology and, at the same time, ensure that
it's customers are able to successfully access and use the intended
information and data is by creating support knowledge bases which are
accessible to the consumer, customer, systems integrator, software developer
and all support people.  Microsoft (R) TechNet is but one example of this.

Ensuring that electronic and information technology, purchased by the
federal government is accessible to and usable by individuals with
disabilities is no different.   

Let's move one step closer to a developing a set of 508 standards that
foster success by creating a subcommittee focused on defining how best to
include systems integration support into our standards.  I will volunteer
time to chair this subcommittee.... but only if there is support for this
idea. 

If you are not a member of our EITAAC and wish to express an opinion on the
benefits (or lack thereof) of including standards in support of developing
and maintaining a Federal Systems Integration Support Resource as part of
our 508 standards you can send your comments directly to me.  I will then
include them ALL in an e-mail message that can be retrieved by anyone
sending me an e-mail message with the words, "508 Systems Integration
Support Resource Discussion" in the subject field.  I will, on occasion,
post the full contents of the cumulative "e-mail" to our EITAAC listserve.
Thank you for your interest in supporting our EITAAC.


Sincerely,


Steve Jacobs
  Enabling Advocacy Link (IDEAL) at NCR
NCR Corporation
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Dayton, Ohio 45479

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gregg Vanderheiden [SMTP:po@trace.wisc.edu]
> Sent:	Monday, October 19, 1998 8:29 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	looking forward
> 
> 
> Steve Berger wrote
> 
> >The reason I think this information will be important is that we should
> want
> >to assure that our work gives a lot of attention to the most commonly
> >purchased types of equipment.
> 
> 
> GV:
> While I agree with this, we need to be careful to also look forward and be
> sure that we address the next, and next next generation technologies,
> since
> these guidelines/rules will be around a lot longer than the increasingly
> short lived technologies we are using today.
> 
> 
> I also believe that we should look carefully at the systems integrator.
> It
> is a purchased service and may be the most critical component for ensuring
> access of the packages or systems as they are experienced by the federal
> employee.
> 
> Gregg