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Subject: FYI: DAISY Navigation Theory
- From: "mike paciello" <mpaciello@paciellogroup.com>
- To: "'Nathaniel S Borenstein'" <nborenst@us.ibm.com>,"'Peter Korn'" <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:01:57 -0500
This document was forwarded to me by George Kerscher, Daisy
Secretary General:
My conversation with Harvey Bingham unfortunately
proved fruitless.
-Mike
Mike Paciello
TPG
+1 603.882.4122 ext 103
Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM> wrote on
02/14/2006 09:03:35 PM:
> 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?
Well, the only way I've ever created an ODF document is by using
Workplace or Open Office, and I certainly don't remember being *prompted* for
labels by either of them.
> 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.
But neither of those are who I was suggesting we try to reach here.
I was suggesting people who are actually writing software, unlike "senior
technical folks like me" who haven't done so in over a decade...
> 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).
Right. Barrier one to creating accessible content
is if such content can't be created -- that's fixing the "holes" in ODF.
Barrier two is if the content creation software doesn't encourage the
creation of such content. Barrier three is if the people who write such
software don't know anything about these issues. I was focusing on the
third, but we need to worry about all three.
Most of you have probably been through these discussions a hundred
times before, and I apologize for any naivete on my part. My only fear is
that the best is the enemy of the good -- if we try to solve all aspects of the
accessibility challenge, we won't end up solving any of them. --
Nathaniel
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