RE: [office-accessibility] ODF TC accessibility summary from meeting earlier today

["mike paciello" <mpaciello@paciellogroup.com>]

Thanks for the notes Peter. 

-Mike 

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter.Korn@Sun.COM [mailto:Peter.Korn@Sun.COM] 
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 8:51 PM
To: office-accessibility@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: Lars Oppermann; bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us
Subject: [office-accessibility] ODF TC accessibility summary from meeting
earlier today

Greetings,

I attended the ODF TC meeting earlier today.  Roughly the last half of the
meeting was devoted to our 14 page submission.  Most of the TC hasn't had
enough time to review it, as the TC has been focusing on remaining ISO
issues (and specifically a set of comments that may or may not have
officially come from China, and how to verify, validate, and address those
comments).

We have one question thus far, as raised by Bruce D'Arcus on how to
implement caption support.  I believe Dave Pawson & Bruce have had several
exchanges about this, with no final conclusion as of yet.  So, one action
item is for you Bruce & Dave - to draft XML schema to address the caption
requirement (Requirement #6).

Michael Brauer proposed that the TC members review the accessibility
proposal, and submit comments/corrections/suggestions over the next 2 weeks.
After that, the TC would assign somebody(s) to draft a formal proposal for
ODF 1.1, to by out by mid-July.

I asked whether this TC review could occur in 1 week instead of 2, and the
TC agreed to try to do this.  The main concern in doing this in 1 week is
that for Requirement #1 (soft page-breaks) we have no XML schema proposed.
Lars Oppermann agreed to produce draft XML schema for this (though if anyone
on the subcommittee has something they would like to propose, that'd be
welcome I'm sure!).  One question came up (from Florian Reuter) with this:
is there any accessibility requirement for soft line-breaks?  Dave Pawson -
does DAISY usage refer to lines that things are on, or just pages,
paragraphs, sections, and such like?  
Implementing soft line-breaks is not something the TC is eager to do (it
would significantly increase the file size!), but they don't want to miss
anything we feel is important.  So Dave, can I have your thoughts on this,
either via e-mail or in our meeting this coming Thursday?

Finally, we talked about an accessibility guidelines document.  The TC (and
specifically Michael Brauer) suggested that we do this in an appendix to the
ODF specification, and that we use as our model the Bidi appendix.  Lars
will send a link to that appendix for us to look at.  
I'd like us to schedule work on our accessibility guidelines document as one
of the next things our accessibility subcommittee works on.


Regards,

Peter