alt text discussion

[Chieko Asakawa <CHIE@jp.ibm.com>]

Hi,

I want to add some comments for the alternative text discussion.
We want to propose that an HTML conversion method should be described for
shapes(rectangles, etc) without "draw:name", if "draw:name should be
optional".
Screen reader users will not need to have meaningless alt texts, however,
alt texts are required to be compliant with Section 508 and WCAG.
It seems that MS Office provides ways to insert alt texts for any shapes,
since a generated HTML documents from office documents should be compliant
with 508.

So we should describe that alt text should be inserted for a shape without
"draw:name", "svg:desc", and a caption, as Null text when an ODF is
converted to HTML format.
In this way, an ODF editor can generate accessible HTML document.

If you agree, then we need to find where we should describe such guideline.

Best regards,
Chieko


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Chieko Asakawa, Ph.D.
Accessibility Research
Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Research
E-mail: chie@jp.ibm.com
Tel: +81-46(215)4633     Fax: +81-46(274)4282



                                                                           
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Draft. Comments please then I can post to TC

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