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Subject: RE: [office] RE: [office-accessibility] Re: [office] Table support for OpenDocument Presentations
I'm good with that suggestion. And I would think that we
(or someone from our group) would be willing to help write/contribute
documentation as needed....
Absolutely, but let me also be
clear: I think this is an issue both for the accessibility SC *and* for
the ODF TC as a whole. The issues may be at their very worst in
accessibility, for several reasons, but it would be a mistake to solve this
problem *only* within the context of the accessibility SC. My preference
would be to have an Implementation Advice SC that receives lots of input from
the Accessibility SC. -- Nathaniel
Well, in part this relates somewhat to the
point that David Clark brought up today -- awareness and misinformation.
Accessibility has a poor history in both areas. So, I believe it would be a
great service to the community of ODF developers and implementers to produce a
guide. - Mike
From: Nathaniel S Borenstein
[mailto:nborenst@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:49
AM
To: Peter Korn
Cc: Florian Reuter;
office@lists.oasis-open.org; office-accessibility@lists.oasis-open.org;
Peter.Korn@Sun.COM; Richard Schwerdtfeger
Subject: Re:
[office-accessibility] Re: [office] Table support for OpenDocument
Presentations
We keep encountering this same discussion, over and over, in minor
variants. The more I see us work on the spec, the more urgently I believe
we need to produce a non-normative but highly authoritative Guide for ODF
Implementers.
If
OASIS can have an ODF Adoption TC, I'm sure it could also have an ODF
Implementation TC devoted to producing such a guide. Or, we could have an
Implementation SC of the main TC, if we wanted to keep it more closely aligned
with the latest issues regarding the spec. We could even have an
Implementation SC of the Adoption TC, on the grounds that the implementation
advice is vital for adoption, but the technical content would be so high that I
think that would be a poor choice. As a last resort, we could even do this
from outside OASIS entirely, though I think that would be the second to worst
possible alternative. (The worst, of course, would be what we are doing
now: Nothing.)
At least twice a month, I think, I have been seeing issues raised in
either the TC or SC that come down to "this isn't a spec issue, but it would be
vital advice to implementers." I think it's time to bite the bullet and
make a plan to produce such a guide. Any other thoughts? --
Nathaniel

Hi Rich,
I thought we'd
discussed this - that these questions are entirely part
of the user
interface in presentations that wrap around the ODF table
implementation.
I agree these are issues we have to work out with the
folks implementing
tables in presentations in our office suites, but I don't
see how that
impacts our XML encoding
decision.
Regards,
Peter Korn
Accessibility
Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> When considering tables in
presentations please consider user agent
> issues.
>
> - Will
the table area be clipped and require scrolling. In MSOffice
> that does
not happen?
> - Has the group addressed all import/export issues?
>
- Will a frame be rendered in the user agent if it is embedded?
>
MSOffice does not. If we don't address this the layout will be a
mess?
>
> We also need to ensure the author has the ability to
define row and
> column headers as are defined in the table
construct.
>
> Rich
>
>
> Rich
Schwerdtfeger
> Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility
Architect/Strategist
> Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review
Board
> blog:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=441
>
>
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
> I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the
> difference.", Frost
>
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Subject
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> [office] Table support for OpenDocument
Presentations
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I just want to give a
brief status description of the evaluation of the
> table support for
OpenDocument presentations.
>
> Currently I see three different ways
of adding table support to
> OpenDocument specifications:
> a)
"native" table support
> b) Embedded object based table support
> c)
tables in text boxes
> d) Drawing object plus annotation based table
support
>
> ad a)
> The "native" table support would have the
advantage, that tables are
> "first-class citizens" of OpenDocument
presentations. An example would be:
> <draw:frame>
>
<table:table>
> ....
> </table:table>
>
</draw:frame>
> The above encoding is closest to Open XML and would
ensure rountrip.
> The disadvantage of the above solution is, that
currently deployed
> reader would ignore the <table:table> element
and thus tables where
> missing in the document. This would require all
vendors of OpenDocument
> processing applications to ship product
patches.
>
> ad b)
> Encoding tables in OpenDocument
presentations as "embedded objects"
> would be the best solution regarding
backward compatibility. Encoding as
> "embeeded object" means nothing else
than "use OpenDocument spreadsheet
> tables in presentations as embedded
objects". An example is:
> <draw:frame>
>
<draw:object xlink:href="javascript:void(0);"
> xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad"
/>
> </draw:frame>
> The disadvantage of this solution is,
that tables in presentations are
> no longer "first-class citizens" as
they are e.g. in Open XML.
>
> ad c)
> OpenDocument allows in
its current version that tables can appear within
> text boxes. However
this currently not implemented in e.g.
> OpenOffice.org. For
example:
> <draw:frame>
> <draw:text-box>
>
<table:table>
> ..
> </table:table>
>
</draw:frame>
> Here without any schema change table in
presentations could be achieved.
>
> ad d) [suggested my Yue
MA]
> Currently OpenDocument processing entities store tables in
presentations
> as shapes, i.e. a table is "drawn", but the structure is
forgotten. By
> simply annotating this "drawn" tables with the table
structure
> information both backward compatibility as well as
accessibility needs
> could be satisfied.
> The disadvantage of this
is, that OpenDocument would get a rather
> "unconventional" second table
model.
>
> I would like to finish the investigation phase know and
start dicussing
> the prefered solution.
>
> Looking forward
for your comments.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
Florian
>
>
>
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