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  • 1.  Re: [office] Important question from Accessibility SC

    Posted 04-26-2006 15:15
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    Subject: Re: [office] Important question from Accessibility SC


    Nathaniel,
    
    Good question!
    
    In terms of "textual description" I am not sure that reuse of draw:name, 
    for example, would be appropriate. Those attributes already have 
    legitimate uses and "reuse" might step on some of those uses.
    
    With that in mind, I think adding an attribute would be the best way to 
    handle this issue.
    
    Hope you are having a great day!
    
    Patrick
    
    Nathaniel S Borenstein wrote:
    
    >
    > The accessibility committee has a question that it wishes to pose to 
    > the full TC.
    >
    > There are several places where ODF currently lacks a way to specify an 
    > alternative textual description of a non-textual object.  In such 
    > cases, we could either invent a new tag or reuse an existing tag in 
    > what seems (to us) to be a reasonable way.  In particular, we're 
    > wondering whether or not we can simply use draw:name, svg:desc, and 
    > office:name for such a purpose.  Would the TC recommend doing so, or 
    > would it be preferable for us to create a new tag such as svg:title? 
    >  Obviously either approach will work, but we aren't sure which is 
    > better.  All opinions are invited.  -- Nathaniel
    
    
    -- 
    Patrick Durusau
    Patrick@Durusau.net
    Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
    Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
    Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005
    
    Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! 
    
    
    


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