What is Electronics and Information Technology?

Any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information. The term information technology includes computers, ancillary equipment, software, firmware and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related resources.

Examples include: (not all possibilities are listed)

Software applications and operating systems.

Any kind of software purchased for use on a government computer or laboratory equipment.

Web-based intranet and internet information and applications. 16 rules.

Any federal government web site, whether internal or external falls under this standard.  VOIP web-based components, software applications that are viewed in a web browser make them web-based.

Telecommunications products.

Telephones, VOIP, FAX Machines,

This provision ensures that these products are compatible with assistive listening devices.

Video and multimedia products.

Videos on web pages, videos shown on a television, conference equipment.

This provision ensures that all videos are closed captioned and audio described where needed.  Captioning and video description should be controllable by the user if they wish to turn it on or off. Narrated slide productions and computer-generated presentations.

Self contained, closed products.

Copy machines, kiosks, printers, calculators, FAX machines. 

Desktop and portable computers.

Laptops, desktops, PDA's, blackberry's, touch screens, use of biometric forms of identification, ports and connections.

Functional performance criteria.

The functional performance criteria is usually for products that do not fall under the above.

Information, documentation, and support.

User guides, manuals, customer support and technical support communications.