Insightful 508 Compliance

American's with Disabilities Act, Section 508

Insightful has made the majority of S-PLUS software capability available to persons with disabilities through command line access and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Insightful has an ongoing effort to accessibility and usability requirements for disabled users, including interoperability of current and future software products. Insightful is committed to improving the accessibility of its software products and solutions. All current product plans explicitly address Section 508 access standards in products and documentation. Insightful test plans include ongoing testing of products for accessibility. Customers who are current on their maintenance receive ongoing update and fix releases in addition to our industry-leading Technical Support. As accessibility requirements evolve, our customers will continue to receive the most current product made available by Insightful in its effort to meet the accessibility needs of disabled users. Insightful products are dependent on technologies provided by operating systems, hardware platforms, and assistive technologies vendors. We recognize that there is a need for standardization within the accessibility products market. The current lack of consistency makes it difficult to determine exactly when compliance is attained. While these technologies and products evolve, Insightful will test its software for compliance with section 508 with software from some of the leading accessibility vendors.

Statement of Compliance

In an effort to comply with § 1194.21 (Software applications and operating systems) of Section 508, we have established the following standards for our software products:

(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.

(e) When bitmap images are used to identify controls, status indicators, or other programmatic elements, the meaning assigned to those images shall be consistent throughout an application's performance.

(f) Textual information shall be provided through operating system functions for displaying text. The minimum information that shall be made available is text content, text input caret location, and text attributes.

(g) Applications shall not override user selected contrast and color selections and other individual display attributes.

(h) When animation is displayed, the information shall be displayable in at least one non-animated presentation mode at the option of the user.

(i) Color coding shall not be used as the only means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element.

(j) When a product permits a user to adjust color and contrast settings, a variety of color selections capable of producing a range of contrast levels shall be provided.

(k) Software shall not use flashing or blinking text, objects, or other elements having a flash or blink frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz.

(l) When electronic forms are used, the form shall allow people using assistive technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues.