It covers issues associated with the planning, development, design, maintenance and operation of telecommunications equipment for persons with a wide range of sensory, physical and cognitive abilities, including older persons and persons with permanent or temporary disabilities (hereafter referred to as older persons and persons with disabilities).

NOTE 1 This Standard also provides general guidelines for distributing, acquiring and evaluating telecommunications equipment for persons with a wide range of sensory, physical and cognitive abilities, including older persons and persons with disabilities.

NOTE 2 Products and product groups designed with new concepts that are outside the categories of conventional products, such as complex products, should also comply with this Standard.

Where standards specific to such product groups are established, however, those standards should be applied.

In addition to identifying user needs, ISO/IEC TR 29138-1:2009 identifies problems that people with disabilities experience with information technologies that lead to these user needs and identifies the relationship of these user needs with the accessibility factors for standards developers to consider found in ISO/IEC Guide 71: Guidelines to address the needs of older persons and people with disabilities when developing standards.

ISO/IEC TR 19766:2007 introduces a set of attributes and operations that can be implemented as features of graphic icons to make the functionality of these icons accessible to the widest possible range of users. Textual attributes are emphasized because they can be rendered in various alternate modalities. ISO/IEC 11581-1 provides guidance on the graphic aspects of icons. Specific renderings of these attributes (or of icons in general) are not dealt with as part of ISO/IEC TR 19766:2007.

ISO/IEC TR 19765:2007 presents icons and symbols currently used to provide access to facilities and tools to support the needs of elderly and disabled users of information technology (IT) products, and could form the basis of a future International Standard which would provide a recommended collection of icons and symbols.

These icons and symbols have been collected from a variety of sources including other standards, contemporary software products, web sites and hardware devices. These sources are cross-referenced and listed in a bibliography.

The icons and symbols presented in ISO/IEC TR 19765:2007 are categorized by modality and method of use.

• A description of the overall architecture and terminology of the API;
• Further introductory explanations regarding the content and use of the API beyond those found in Annex A of ISO/IEC 13066-1;
• An overview of the main properties, including of:
  • user interface elements;
  • how to get and set focus;
  • of communication mechanisms in the API;
  • a discussion of design considerations for the API (e.g. pointers to external sources of information on accessibility guidance related to using the API);
  • information on extending the API (and where this is appropriate);
  • an introduction to the programming interface of the API (including pointers to external sources of information);
  • an introduction to the Java Access Bridge for Windows and the Java Access Bridge for GNOME.

It will provide this information as an introduction to the Java API to assist:

• IT system level developers who create custom controls and/or interface to them;
• AT developers involved in programming "hardware to software" and "software to software" interactions.

It provides:

• a description of the overall architecture and terminology of the API;
• further introductory explanations regarding the content and use of the API beyond those found in Annex A of ISO/IEC 13066-1;
• an overview of the main properties, including:
  • of user interface elements,
  • of how to get and set focus,
  • of communication mechanisms in the API;
• a discussion of design considerations for the API (e.g. pointers to external sources of information on accessibility guidance related to using the API);
• information on extending the API (and where this is appropriate);
• an introduction to the programming interface of the API (including pointers to external sources of information).

It provides this information as an introduction to the IAccessible2 API to assist:

• IT system level developers who create custom controls and/or interface to them;
• AT developers involved in programming "hardware to software" and "software to software" interactions.

It will provide the following:

– a description of the overall architecture and terminology of the API;

– further introductory explanations regarding the content and use of the API beyond those found in ISO/IEC 13066-1:2011, Annex A;

– an overview of the main properties, including

• – of user interface elements,
• – of how to get and set focus, and
• – of communication mechanisms in the API;

– a discussion of design considerations for the API (e.g. pointers to external sources of information on accessibility guidance related to using the API);

– information on extending the API (and where this is appropriate);

– an introduction to the programming interface of the API (including pointers to external sources of information).

It will provide this information as an introduction to the Java API to assist the following:

– IT system level developers who create custom controls and/or interface to them;

– AT developers involved in programming "hardware to software" and "software to software" interactions.

A primary goal of ISO/IEC TR 13066-2:2012 is to ensure that accessible software applications can be written in such a way that they are fully compatible with the Microsoft Accessibility APIs available on the Microsoft Windows operating system.