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Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] Minutes: February 10 Accessibility SubteamMeeting
Hi Nathaniel, > > Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM> wrote on 02/14/2006 07:18:52 PM: > > > I'm not surprised (or disappointed) that this is out of scope for a > file > > format standardization effort, even if it is all about accessibility. > > But many of the folks in this subcommittee are in fact the right folks > > to be working on this. And if our goal is to make ODF a standard that > > meets accessibility needs, then this is very much an issue that must be > > addressed somewhere... > > > > So... any thoughts as to where this is best addressed? > > Well, first of all I should say that I am really new to this area, so > I don't know where there are minefields or bodies buried. However, a > naive web search led me to: > > > http://www.ataccess.org/ > > > This kind of education seems right up their alley -- their FAQS are > particularly wonderful. Perhaps we should be considering jointly > pursuing some ODF-related work at one or more non-profits like this > one? I guess I could use a tutorial in the politics of accessibility. > You are a distinguished engineer at IBM. You have presumably been developing software for a long time. How many of the ODF documents that you have created, which include images, have those images labeled? More documentation about such things at places like http://www.ataccess.org/ is certainly a good and welcome thing. But also largely ineffective at reaching the masses of thoughtful, senior technical folks like yourself, let alone the unwashed masses. The minefield/body that is buried is actually a very large elephant, and he is in the middle of our room. That elephant is that folks don't create accessible content - and a larger and larger fraction of the world population is now creating content that other folks want to read (Gutenberg's printing press was nothing compared to the web). > > In the short term, we ought to make sure this is on the agenda for the > proposed ODF Promotion TC, though that doesn't really seem adequate > for the long term. -- Nathaniel > Yes, on both counts. Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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