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

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

On 13/06/06, Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@sun.com> wrote:

>
> 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).

Will do. OK with that Bruce?



>  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?

A blind persons requirement is no different to yours or mine.
The classic example is two children in class. Turn to page 45,
third paragraph. Without soft page breaks being identified, how
can the blind child navigate to a 'visual' page?  Daisy has a single
element.

<!ELEMENT pagenum (#PCDATA) >

<!--Attuse: pagenum

    "page" allows three kinds of page numbering
    schemes to be identified:
    "front" (for roman-numeral pages at the start of a book),
    "normal" (for pages identified by arabic numerals),
    or "special" (for all other kinds of pages)
    For multi-page continuous content,
    such as large <img> or <table>, put the sequence of <pagenum> on
    the page where that content starts.
    -->

<!ATTLIST pagenum
  %attrsrqd;
  page (front | normal | special) 'normal'
  >


So I'd see <pagenum page='normal'>45</pagenum>

Since this is primarily a navigational tool, it is picked up and
provides a target
for navigation, so 'goto page 45' is viable.

HTH


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