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Subject: Re: [office] Accessibility Evaluation of the OpenDocument v1.0specification
Accessibility SC members,
TC members,
I would like to join the congratulations from Mary and Rob, and would like to
thank all accessibility SC members for your hard work on the report.
I would further like to ask all TC members to familiarize yourself with the
report. It contains a couple of recommendations that we will have to discuss
very soon.
Best regards
Michael
Peter Korn wrote On 05/27/06 02:19,:
> Greetings,
>
> As set forth in the Statement of purpose of the Accessibility
> Subcommittee of the OASIS ODF Technical Committee, the Accessibility
> Subcommittee submits their report of the outcome of their accessibility
> evaluation of the OpenDocument v1.0 specification. Our report is
> attached, in ODF, PDF, and XHTML formats.
>
> Here is our Executive Summary:
>
> The ODF Accessibility Subcommittee has identified 9
> accessibility issues in ODF 1.0, and proposes candidate
> solutions to them. With these changes, we believe that ODF
> will meet or exceed the accessibility support provided in
> all other office file formats as well as that specified in
> the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
>
> Furthermore, these modifications will enable ODF to support
> the authoring of DAISY digital talking books, a worldwide
> standard used by blind, low vision, learning disabled, and
> other print impaired communities.
>
> The recommended changes address:
>
> * Alternative text for non-text objects (3 recommendations)
> * Proper association of captions to captioned content
> * Encoding of pagination information
> * Preservation of table semantic structure imported from
> other file formats
> * Proper encoding of authored table header content
> * Author-defined logical navigation of page objects in
> presentations
> * Provision of alternative text hints for hyperlinks
>
> Furthermore, we request that the appropriate text be added to
> the ODF specification to indicate how this accessibility meta
> data is mapped by the authoring tool to a platform accessibility
> API as well as their accessibility applicability in the
> specification.
>
> To fully address the needs of people with disabilities in using
> ODF, an ODF application must meet a number of accessibility
> requirements as well. ODF application developers should be
> provided with implementation guidelines to meet these
> requirements.
>
>
> It is the intention of this subcommittee to continue working, now with
> our focus on the new goal of defining and delivering improvements to the
> efficiency and usability of ODF by people with disabilities that goes
> beyond the current state of the art. These improvements include:
> effective blind access to slide presentations; partnering with the W3C
> to tackle SVG graphics accessibility; better access to graphs and
> charts; and improved navigation models for tabular data. We look
> forward to delivering to the technical committee our thoughts and
> recommendations in these areas for consideration in future versions of
> the ODF specification.
>
>
>
> On behalf of the OASIS ODF Accessibility Subcommittee,
>
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
>
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