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

[Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM>]

Hi Dave,

I have no problem moving to a larger font size for our own document.  I 
have tagged the body of the text of our guidelines documet as the "Text 
Body" style, which is is now set to 12 point Arial.  We'll need to do 
alot more style work - perhaps part of the editing phase (Dave - the 
bold headings in your section 3.2.4 probably should have a formal 
style).  I've likewise altered the table of contents styles (levels 
1..3) to be 12 point.

I am somewhat uncertain about some of what is in 3.2.  The main focus I 
think of this document is ODF implementors, with advice on helping them 
help authors (and readers).  It doesn't make sense to tell an 
implementor to create text in at least 12 point size.  I can see 
suggesting 12 point as the default size.  And I can see having a "put 
this ODF app into a 'good for generating accessible content'" 
switch/mode - especially important for organizations like Massachusetts 
who want an easy way to choose a style sheet for making good content (in 
fact, perhaps several sets, including the "for creating large print 
books" set, vs. "standard accessible documents" [vs. legalease text in 
the myopia 6 font :-)]).  But... going beyond that seems to me to be 
appropriate for a slightly different document.


Peter

P.S. I've finished my first pass at chapter 1, and am working on chapter 2.
> On 02/10/06, Malte Timmermann <Malte.Timmermann@sun.com> wrote:
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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.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I disagree with this.
>> > Because a lot of people do it doesn't help with accessibility.
>> >
>> OK, but then stop using 10pt in our document.
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> Yes please Peter/Rich?
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> RNIB has a standard of 14 point which we class as 'clear' print
> required for all internal documents.
>
> regards
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