Re: [office-accessibility] Malte's comments on latest draft

[Malte Timmermann <Malte.Timmermann@Sun.COM>]

Some comments inline...

Dave Pawson wrote, On 10/02/06 16:05:
> Terminology.
> implementor (of an ODF generating application).
> Author = user = person who generates an ODF document using an implementation.
> Reader = person who is accessing an ODF document.
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> On 02/10/06, Malte Timmermann <Malte.Timmermann@sun.com> wrote:
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>> 3.1.3: The implementor can help by making it easy for the user to add
>> row and column headings
>> => not user, but author
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> I view the user and author (of a new ODF document) as the same person.
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On some places we distinguish author and reader.
Here the implementor helps (enables) the author, not the reader.
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>> 3.2 (org chart):  How can the implementor help the reader
>> => Author instead of implementor, or author instead of reader?
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> No, how can the implementor help the reader, i.e. the end user of
> the written document?
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That's what I was talking about...
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>> 3.2.3: If an implementor tries this with a spreadsheet...
>> => IMHO reader, not implementor
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> Yes.
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>> 3.2.3: work with font sizes of at least 12 point..
>> => So why do we use 10 in normal text??? ;)
>> I think a lot of people use 10, so I wouldn't recommend 12 here, but
>> recommend to ODF implementors to offer a zoom mode.
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> I disagree with this.
> Because a lot of people do it doesn't help with accessibility.
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OK, but then stop using 10pt in our document.

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>> 3.2: Audio: "Let the reader know about the audio"
>> => Not sure how to handle: How to do this when giving a presentation?
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> I'm looking for suggestions from an implementor.
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>> 4.2: The bullets or list markers are corrupted in OOo
>> Also nothing for guidelines
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> I meant in the Guidelines. The bullets don't show in OOo
> The document has been corrupted somewhere.
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> regards
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