RE: [office-accessibility] Re: ODF Accessibility Guidelines

["Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

Thanks Michael!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM [mailto:Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:32 AM
> To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> Cc: Peter.Korn@Sun.COM; robert_weir@us.ibm.com; schwer@us.ibm.com; office-
> accessibility@lists.oasis-open.org; OpenDocument Mailing List; tc-
> admin@oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] Re: ODF Accessibility Guidelines
> 
> Mary,
> 
> the TC on Monday has accepted a motion to hold a vote to approve the
> accessibility guidelines as a Committee Specification. The minutes of
> the meeting are at
> 
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200801/msg00025.html
> 
> Can you please create a ballot for this.
> 
> Thank you and best regards
> 
> Michael
> 
> Mary McRae wrote:
> > If the TC wishes to hold a vote to approve as a Committee Specification,
> then
> > that motion must be made and minuted. The chair will then need to notify
> me to
> > create a web ballot, which requires a special majority vote for approval.
> Once
> > it is approved, new versions of the documents would need to be created
> noting
> > the status "Committee Specification" and the date of approval (date the
> ballot
> > closed).
> >
> > If the TC wishes to leave the status "as is" then those documents already
> exist
> > and have been uploaded to the OASIS Library.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mary
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Peter.Korn@Sun.COM [mailto:Peter.Korn@Sun.COM]
> >> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 5:56 PM
> >> To: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
> >> Cc: schwer@us.ibm.com; Mary McRae; Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM; office-
> >> accessibility@lists.oasis-open.org
> >> Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] Re: ODF Accessibility Guidelines
> >>
> >> Hi Rob,
> >>
> >> I delivered all of the required formats to Mary McRae when we submitted
> >> it as a committee draft. I can trivially re-spin this set with the
> >> appropriate document tag if that changes to something formally "final".
> >> Mary - please let me know.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Peter Korn
> >> Accessibility Architect,
> >> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> >>
> >>> Hi Rich,
> >>>
> >>> This is good news. Congratulations to the subcommittee for reaching
> >>> this milestone.
> >>>
> >>> The TC policy says the following: "All TC-approved versions of
> >>> documents (i.e. Committee Drafts, Public Review Drafts, and Committee
> >>> Specifications) must be delivered to the TC's document repository in
> >>> the (1) editable source, (2) HTML or XHTML, and (3) PDF formats."
> >>>
> >>> Do you have copies of this candidate in these other formats as well?
> >>>
> >>> There has been some talk, but no formal plan, around having an
> >>> informative "Guide for Implementors", of which the Accessibility
> >>> Guidelines might feature. Other parts might be a Metadata Guidelines,
> >>> Spreadsheet Test Cases, etc. In fact, we were just talking about this
> >>> on the Metadata Subcommittee call earlier this week, where it was
> >>> suggested that we follow the same template as the Accessibility
> >>> Guidelines in order to make it easier to combine later.
> >>>
> >>> ODF 1.2 schedule -- we're thinking Q2 for public review & vote as
> >>> OASIS Standard, followed by submission to JTC1. But note that the
> >>> Guide for Implementors can be done as a Committee Specification at any
> >>> time, and we probably won't submit that to JTC1.
> >>>
> >>> -Rob
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> *Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS*
> >>>
> >>> 01/18/2008 03:29 PM
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> To
> >>> 	Robert Weir/Cambridge/IBM@Lotus, Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM
> >>> cc
> >>> 	Peter.Korn@sun.com, office-accessibility@lists.oasis-open.org
> >>> Subject
> >>> 	ODF Accessibility Guidelines
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Rob, Michael,
> >>>
> >>> The ODF Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
> >>> (http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-
> >> accessibility/download.php/25664/ODF_Accessibility_Guidelines_v1.0-
> >> candidate.odt)
> >>> completed its public review on December 21 and no comments were
> >>> received. The group has voted that these guidelines be posted to the
> >>> public OASIS web site for ODF. If this requires Committee Specifcation
> >>> Status we would ask that the ODF TC vote on this.
> >>>
> >>> What is the process moving forward so that we can get the guidelines
> >>> public on the OASIS site?
> >>>
> >>> We are going to begin on a revised version of the guidelines targeted
> >>> at ODF 1.2. Although the guidelines are non-normative Peter thought
> >>> there would be a bundling of the guidelines with a collection of
> >>> documents related to ODF 1.2. Is this true? We will need to know the
> >>> timeline for 1.2. Looking at the ODF TC internal site we have not seen
> >>> a revision to the ODF 1.2 specification since September so perhaps
> >>> this has been pushed out. What is the timeline for ODF 1.2?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Rich
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> >>> Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
> >>> Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
> >>> blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer
> >>
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