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Re: [office] Important question from Accessibility SC

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

    Posted 04-26-2006 16:31
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    Subject: Re: [office] Important question from Accessibility SC


    Thank you Patrick. I will write up the proposal for alternative text accordingly.


    Rich Schwerdtfeger
    Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
    Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
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    Nathaniel S Borenstein/Concord/IBM@IBMUS

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    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


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    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

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