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Subject: Re: [office] OpenDocument v1.1 Committee Draft 1


Mary, Peter, all,

first of all: independent of what the A11y SC or the TC considers to be 
the best solution, we need a decission very soon. Our current schedule 
for OpenDocument 1.1 is set up in a way that we may have an OASIS 
Standard voting in November provided of cause that the public review is 
sucessfull. If we want to keep this option, then the public review must 
start on the 2nd of August latest, allthough this already would lead to 
an extremly tight schedule.

Maybe the A11y SC can discuss and agree on one of the options today, so 
that the TC can take the appropriate actions in its TC meeting on Monday.

Regarding the appendix and the options itself:

The current Appendix E includes exactly those accessibility guidelines 
that were already included in the proposals contained in the 
accessibility report. More precisely, for some of the extensions 
suggested by the a11y report, the text proposals that are contained in 
the report were splitted: The text that describes the semantic of new 
elements and attributes was added to the normative part of the 
specification, while guidelines regarding their implementation and use 
were move to the appendix.

We now have (at least) the following options:

a) We keep ODF 1.1 as it is, and the SC works on a companion document 
that the TC approves independently.
b) We replace the content of Appendix E with a reference to the TC or SC 
web pages (since the companion document is not existing so far, 
referencing it seems not be an option to me).
c) We delay ODF 1.1 and replace Appendix E with the accessibility 
guidelines that are a work in progress in the A11y SC. This delay could 
be compensated by setting an OASIS standard vote for OpenDocument 1.1 
aside for this year, which saves about one and a half months. Since 
accessibility is the main reason for OpenDocument v1.1, it would be 
interesting to know the A11y SC's opinion on this.

Whatever the SC thinks is the best solution works for me, and I believe 
for the TC as well.

I personally prefer option a) if the Accessibility SC would like to have 
at least those recommendation included in the specification that were 
contained in the A11y report, and option b), if this is not the case.

Michael



Mary McRae wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
>   I personally like Peter's suggestion that the accessibility guidelines be
> treated as a separate document that Appendix E would reference; particularly
> since it's non-normative. One concern with the current approach would be that
> unless additional public reviews are intended prior to voting v1.1 as a
> Committee Specification and optionally submitting for OASIS Standard vote, no
> new material can be added, meaning that the additional work under development
> would have to wait for the next release of the main specification. I'm only
> jumping in here because I have already received a request from Michael to
> announce the public review; if you want to change the document to accomodate
> this suggestion now would be time ... Michael can withdraw his request, Appendix
> E can be modified, and then we can go forward with the 60-day review.
> 
>   Please note that this is just my personal opinion and should not be construed
> to carry any more weight because of my position as TC Administrator and/or Staff
> Contact.
> 
> Mary
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Peter.Korn@Sun.COM [mailto:Peter.Korn@Sun.COM] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:49 PM
>>To: Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
>>Cc: office@lists.oasis-open.org
>>Subject: Re: [office] OpenDocument v1.1 Committee Draft 1
>>
>>Hi Michael & TC members,
>>
>>Thank you for the update & this draft that includes work to 
>>address the accessibility issues our audit turned up. 
>>
>>The accessibility SC has been looking at an "accessibility 
>>implementation guide" - to note issues that we would like ODF 
>>application implementors to be aware of and to make 
>>provisions for.  The three topics in Appendix E of the ODF 
>>v1.1 committee draft spec. are great; it's just that we have 
>>quite a bit more than this that we'd like to see included 
>>(but whose text isn't writen yet).
>>
>>Can you give us any advise on how to proceed?  Should we 
>>attempt to rapidly finish this work so as to have it in 
>>Appendix E of the ODF v1.1 spec.?  Or should we work on a 
>>companion document instead (that Appendix E might simply reference)?
>>
>>You can view our outline for this appendix at: 
>>http://oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-accessibility/
> 
> download.php/19199/Draft_a11y_appendix_ODF_1.1_13July06.odt
> 
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Peter Korn
>>Accessibility Architect,
>>Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>>
>>
>>>Dear TC members,
>>>
>>>I have just uploaded OpenDocument v1.1 Committee Draft 1 in the 
>>>following
>>>formats:
>>>
>>>OpenDocument:
>>>
>>
>>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19207/OpenDocument-v
>>
>>>1.1-cd1.odt
>>>
>>>
>>>(tagged) PDF:
>>>
>>
>>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19206/OpenDocument-v
>>
>>>1.1-cd1.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>>HTML (zipped):
>>>
>>
>>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19208/OpenDocument-v
>>
>>>1.1-cd1_html.zip
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I have further extracted the schemas from the committee draft, they 
>>>are available at:
>>>
>>>Schema:
>>>
>>
>>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19205/OpenDocument-s
>>
>>>chema-v1.1-cd1.rng
>>>
>>>
>>>Strict Schema:
>>>
>>
>>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19204/OpenDocument-s
>>
>>>trict-schema-v1.1-cd1.rng
>>>
>>>
>>>Manifest Schema:
>>>
>>
>>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19203/OpenDocument-m
>>
>>>anifest-schema-v1.1-cd1.rng
>>>
>>>
>>>Best regards
>>>
>>>Michael
>>>
>>>
>>
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