Re: [office-accessibility] Notes from the OASIS ODF TC meeting

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

Peter,

While I understand that the committee specification is below is for interim review, I want to be clear that ODF 1.1 must be a full OASIS standard by the end of the year and that only producing a Committee Specification would be insufficient.

Rich


Rich Schwerdtfeger
Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer
Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM>

Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM>
Sent by: Peter.Korn@Sun.COM

07/24/2006 08:22 PM

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Subject	[office-accessibility] Notes from the OASIS ODF TC meeting

Greetings,

We discussed ODF v1.1 at the OASIS ODF TC meeting earlier today.

One question that came up was the importance of having OASIS vote on
v1.1 (thus making it an OASIS standard; vs. it simply being an ODF TC
standard).  The general sense was that while this would save 1 month,
and perhaps be equally useful to implementors (who would likely respect
it), there is significant communication value to being an OASIS spec.  
Further, this is not a decision we need to make now; so long as we start
the 60 day public review process within the next couple of weeks we can
get through the entire OASIS process this calendar year.

We also talked about a possible change in URL in Section E.4, from
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/office-accessibility/guidelines for
our specific page, to a more general
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/guidelines 
<http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/office-accessibility/guidelines>
which other guidelines might share.  Such a URL change is a "minor
editorial change", and so could happen after the 60-day public review
(and so there was no need to make that change now).

The group voted to make draft #7 the committee draft for v1.1, to be
released for public review ASAP.  This should happen after the TC
minutes are published (tomorrow CET).

Finally, I agreed to provide on our SC behalf text to live at the
Accessibility Guidelines URL (which as noted above is
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/office-accessibility/guidelines.  This
could be the existing text of Appendix E, or it could be our current
outline, or some combination of the two.  I'd like your feedback on
this.  But I'd also like to get this in place ASAP, so we don't publish
a broken URL.


Thanks,

Peter

P.S. turns out I was off by a week - I'll be at (and able to chair) our
SC meeting this coming Thursday July 27th.  It's the following week that
I expect to be away...