Comments on ODF Acc Guidelines

[Pete Brunet <brunet@us.ibm.com>]

Here are my comments on the ODF Acc
Guidelines.  I reviewed using Dave Pawson's 9/28 draft.

• Consider adding Hiro and me as authors (at the top) and Pete as a contributor (Appendix E; Hiro already listed) for the section on subtables.
• The subtables section is not in the TOC
• The subtables section is labeled both 3.2.6 and 3.3
• In the subtable section should we say that we are recommending the deprecation of table:is-subtable?
• There is a lot of minor editing that could be done but I assume a writer will fix all of that.
• Section 1.4:  Yes.  I would like to see an "Are you sure?" box appear if someone attempts to insert a graphic without alt text.  Maybe this would be considered too harsh.  But that could be mitigated by having a "Don't show me this again." checkbox.  Alt text is also covered in 3.2.
• Section 3.1.2:  Do we cover providing structure (and thus access to the semantics) through the grouping of non-text objects?  I do see this mentioned in 3.2.4.
• Section 3.1.3: ODF has many table attributes besides headers.  I think the list is: caption, summary, row and col description.  Should they be discussed?
• Section 3.2: Consider explaining the difference between alt text and descriptions and when to use each.  Explain when not to use alt text.  Maybe this is covered well enough in later sections.
• Section 3.2.4:  Isn't alt text and title the same thing?  Alt text is encoded in svg:title.  svg:title is then used as an accessible name.
• Section 4.2.5:  Mention formulas?
• Formula encoding is also a consideration for import/export.  There is currently an interop problem which Hiro has identified.
• It's not clear to me why the content in Appendix D is separated from the rest.  Maybe the heading text needs to be reworded and an intro added?
• Section D2:  Should it be svg:title instead of office:title?
• Section D2 (second paragraph):  Shouldn't title text map to accessible name (not accessible description)?  See line 985 in section D.1 of Dave's 9/28 draft.

Pete Brunet
                    
                     
                     
         
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