Re: [office-accessibility] alt text discussion

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

Thanks Ckieko.

So you are saying that draw:name should be a schema required attribute or are you saying that the author should supply a draw:name and that the schema make it optional?

Cheers,
Rich


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Chieko Asakawa <CHIE@jp.ibm.com>

Chieko Asakawa <CHIE@jp.ibm.com>

04/07/2006 08:03 AM

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Subject	[office-accessibility] alt text discussion

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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Draft. Comments please then I can post to TC

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