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Subject: accessibility caption proposal comments
While it's fresh in my mind, I realize that I never did lay out my concern about the caption proposal, first asking for clarification here: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200605/msg00015.html> In general, I think examples like captions are where the accessibility SC has identified some structural weaknesses in ODF that have broader implications. These are partly legacy from heavily presentation-oriented traditions in word-processors, but traditions I strongly believe we need to evolve ODF away from. The problems include captions, but also more difficult issues like sections, where sectional breaks can only be inferred awkwardly. I'd like to see us move towards more structural rigor in general; more XHTML 2.0 than 1.0. Anyway, to get to my point on the caption proposal, I recognize that adding an attribute link is a fairly painless solution, but I also think it's not a good long-term one, not only because it will conflict with the efforts of the metadata SC. My suggestion would instead be to use natural containment, and to add a caption element to ODF 1.2; e.g. <text:p> <draw:frame> <!-- outer frame --> <draw:text-box> <draw:frame> <draw:image> <office:binary-data>picture data here....</office:binary-data> <text:caption>Caption Text</text:caption> </draw:image> </draw:frame> </draw:text-box> </draw:frame> </text:p> Bruce
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