Agenda: July 28 ODF Accessibility Subcommittee Meeting (attached are thecurrent 1.2 guidelines draft with Pete's requested changes)

[Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>]

Dear colleagues,

This is the agenda for the OASIS ODF Accessibility subcommittee meeting: Monday July 28, at 7am PT / 9am CT / 10am ET / 4pm CET / 11pm Japan time. Please use our usual (and unpublished) dial-in, and our usual IRC channel: &office-accessibility at irc.oasis-open.org

Based on the last discussion with the ODF TC we need to be looking to get things wrapped in September regarding requirements. We do face some hurdles as we don't feel the ODF 1.2 spec. is really ready for review. So, we are still focusing on ODF Accessibility Guidelines.

Suggested agenda:

1. Minutes July 14 Meeting? Will the scribe from the last meeting please post the minutes?


2. Review of the non-ODF v1.2 status of the OASIS ODF Accessibility Guidelines. Latest draft can be found attached, with change tracking showing what is new (see specifically Section 3.4 starting on page 26 and Appendix A on page 55). I believe Rich was sheepherding this draft, collecting the text to then pass over to me.

• Section 3.4
  • I included "text blinking" in sectin 3.4.1 - prevention of seizures
  • Is this section acceptable now?
  • How much of the markup on triggering seizure due to flashing/refrsth rate do we want in the ODF 1.2 Specification?
    
• Janina to modify accessibility guidelines to state how common field attributes (section 6.7 of the ODF 1.2 spec.) should be supplied to the AT. The field attributes would indicate whether something were a boolean, Gregorian date, etc.
• Peter to add a new section with guidelines as to how to provide tracking information to ATs
• Peter to modify guidelines to ensure applications respond to system font and color settings.
• Pete confirmed that native table support is now in the schema! http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-accessibility/email/archives/200806/msg00033.html
  How should we modify section 3.1.7. Tables are now in ODF 1.2 for presentations. Do we address older versions of ODF? The bandaid for ODF 1.1 was to convert to an embedded accessible spreadsheet (OLE for Windows).
  

Are there others I have failed to capture (beyond anything new for ODF v1.2)?

3. Discussion of Pete's Chart Accessibility Analysis: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-accessibility/email/archives/200806/msg00032.html

Did Michael Brauer address your question regarding ill-defined chart information? Is someone working on it in the TC?

4. Old action items from before;

• ACTION: Steve Noble to look at formulas specification identify data that would update frequently, such as volatile formula information that would require the Office application to inform the AT of updates sections. Will complete by next meeting.
• ACTION: Peter Korn to provide guidelines as to how to provide tracking information to ATs; and modify guidelines to ensure applications respond to system font and color settings.
• ACTION: Rich Schwerdtfeger to provide base document for ODF 1.2 change specification (starting with caption-id reference) to Mike Paciello. Mike is to own the requirements document for ODF 1.2 which will be submitted to the ODF TC. Rich is waiting on a decision as to where the ODF schema is to reside (separate or within the base document).
  

Latest Office 1.2 specification: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/download.php/28781/OpenDocument-v1.2draft7-4.odt

(See attached file: odfguide-rich5.odt)


Rich Schwerdtfeger
Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review  Board
blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer

odfguide-rich5.odt