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Subject: Accessibility Evaluation of the OpenDocument v1.0 specification
Greetings, As set forth in the Statement of purpose of the Accessibility Subcommittee of the OASIS ODF Technical Committee, the Accessibility Subcommittee submits their report of the outcome of their accessibility evaluation of the OpenDocument v1.0 specification. Our report is attached, in ODF, PDF, and XHTML formats. Here is our Executive Summary: The ODF Accessibility Subcommittee has identified 9 accessibility issues in ODF 1.0, and proposes candidate solutions to them. With these changes, we believe that ODF will meet or exceed the accessibility support provided in all other office file formats as well as that specified in the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. Furthermore, these modifications will enable ODF to support the authoring of DAISY digital talking books, a worldwide standard used by blind, low vision, learning disabled, and other print impaired communities. The recommended changes address: * Alternative text for non-text objects (3 recommendations) * Proper association of captions to captioned content * Encoding of pagination information * Preservation of table semantic structure imported from other file formats * Proper encoding of authored table header content * Author-defined logical navigation of page objects in presentations * Provision of alternative text hints for hyperlinks Furthermore, we request that the appropriate text be added to the ODF specification to indicate how this accessibility meta data is mapped by the authoring tool to a platform accessibility API as well as their accessibility applicability in the specification. To fully address the needs of people with disabilities in using ODF, an ODF application must meet a number of accessibility requirements as well. ODF application developers should be provided with implementation guidelines to meet these requirements. It is the intention of this subcommittee to continue working, now with our focus on the new goal of defining and delivering improvements to the efficiency and usability of ODF by people with disabilities that goes beyond the current state of the art. These improvements include: effective blind access to slide presentations; partnering with the W3C to tackle SVG graphics accessibility; better access to graphs and charts; and improved navigation models for tabular data. We look forward to delivering to the technical committee our thoughts and recommendations in these areas for consideration in future versions of the ODF specification. On behalf of the OASIS ODF Accessibility Subcommittee, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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