Re: [office-accessibility] Fw: investigation of new items in ODF 1.2

I do believe they need a group element in 1.2. Also, there is the caption-id for tables.

See my posts.

Rich Schwerdtfeger

Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist

blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer

Hironobu Takagi ---11/10/2008 09:04:09 AM---All,

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[office-accessibility] Fw: investigation of new items in ODF 1.2

All, 

Our point is that we have not found any item to change the spec, but some 

discussion points for our guidelines. 

ttyl.

hiro

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Hironobu Takagi, PhD.

Accessibility Research

Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Research

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Tatsuya Ishihara/Japan/IBM

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Concerns about new items in ODF 1.2

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Tatsuya Ishihara/Japan/IBM - Monday, November 10, 2008, 23:55

Takagi-san,

please forward this mail to ODF accessibility subocommittee mailing list.

New items in ODF 1.2 are listed in ODF main TC wiki (

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/List_of_Proposals).

Among these items, three items listed below seems relavant to 

accessibility.

I would like to discuss if we should refer to these items in Accessibility 

Guideline.

1. Database Frontend Proposal 

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200703/msg00245.html

ODF 1.2 defines database front end format, so office editors will have 

user interface to manipulate data in database.

We should recommend that this interface is accessible to people to 

disabilities.

2. Preferred view mode upon opening document

http://wiki.oasis-open.org/office/proposal%3Aauto-play_presentation_file_format?highlight=(CategoryCategory\b)|(CategoryApprovedProposal\b)

ODF 1.2 defines preferred view mode. 

Auto play slide show mode is defined in this item. 

If this mode is set, screen show will start when opening the document 

(just like PPS file in Microsoft Office).

We should recommend that viewers that support only auto play screen show 

should also support accessibility functions.

3. <svg:desc> and <svg:title> for drawing pages (minor problem) 

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200710/msg00065.html

Description for each page in presentation document is supported in ODF 

1.2. 

<svg:title> or <svg:desc> elements provides accessible name or description 

for <draw:page> element. 

<draw:page> element also have <presentation:notes> element that is used 

for providing speaker notes. 

Because speaker notes is sometimes used to provide graphical information 

for blind people, 

it might be better to clarify the difference between <presentation:notes> 

and <svg:title>, <svg:desc> in Accessibility Guideline.

Best regards.

Tatsuya

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Tatsuya Ishihara 

IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory (Mail Code: LAB-S77)

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