Re: [office] Important question from Accessibility SC

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

Since we are proposing <svg:desc> for long descriptions we would be proposing <svg:title> for the alternative text.


Rich Schwerdtfeger
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Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
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"Gary Edwards" <gary.edwards@OpenDocument.us>

"Gary Edwards" <gary.edwards@OpenDocument.us>
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04/26/2006 11:43 AM

To	patrick@durusau.net
cc	Nathaniel S Borenstein/Concord/IBM@IBMUS, office@lists.oasis-open.org, Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, Peter.Korn@sun.com
Subject	Re: [office] Important question from Accessibility SC

+1 adding an Attribute

Would this alt attribute also mean that ODF is "optimized for processing"? Like those guys over at ECMA? :)

~ge~

On 4/26/06, Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net> wrote:

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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