Re: [office-accessibility] A tweak to the Section 4.5

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

Hi gang!

I'm still about 5' under the frothing waves of my inbox (as compared to 
the 75' of delightfully clear water I was under in Hawaii last week).  
I'll try to get to my changes in the next couple of days.  Meanwhile, I 
understand from Rich that he won't be able to join/lead us in a meeting 
this week.  I daresay I won't be in a good position to do so either, 
given the other deliverables I need to deliver on this week.

I do have a related request of everyone - your feedback on the Section 
508 draft proposed requirements for document content accessibility (see 
http://teitac.org/wiki/Web_and_Software:_Draft_2#Recommendations_on_a_new_section_to_cover_content_formats) 
which we discussed in the May 31 meeting, and which everyone took an 
action item to review.

I'm supposed to provide our feedback to the Web & Software subcommittee 
of the Section 508 refresh effort at our meeting tomorrow, and I would 
very much appreciate your feedback to add to my own.


Regards,

 Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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> Thank you! I have made all the changes including those from Janina and 
> Steve. I am just waiting for Peter Korn's change for section 2.1. 
> Peter may be back from vacation this week. I also removed a reference 
> to LSR where we refer to Linux ATs.
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> Here is the latest draft with edits.
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> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
> Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review  Board
> blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer
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> *"Steve Noble" <steven@dessci.com>*
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> In regards to Section 4.5 "Preservation of MathML accessibility
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> We need to change what is now three brief paragraphs, and replace it
> with only one paragraph below...
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> 1) The existing (problematic) language:
> --begin--
> MathML can be exported to XHTML for use by Firefox or Internet Explorer
> when used with the (free) MathPlayer plug-in, MathML also  interfaces
> with screen readers to make the math accessible. MathML is supported in
> HTML by Internet Explorer and in an experimental version of Firefox.
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> But in general, MathML support in HTML is problematic if cross-platform
> compatibility is  required. For example, one industry approach to
> cross-platform compatibility, which has been use by the object tag in
> HTML??sentence not clear??.
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> However, Internet Explorer's implementation of object tag does not
> follow the W3C guidelines and its rendering results are poor, so this
> approach is discouraged.
> --end--
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> 2) Rationale for change:
> The first sentence should have another comma, to make it clear
> MathPlayer is only required in IE.  Also, to say MathML can be exported
> *to* XHTML isn't correct terminology.  We should keep the XHTML and HTML
> statements parallel in that regard, and say "MathML is supported..." in
> both cases. Finally, the object tag reference is not constructive. There
> was some past proposal to use object tags for XML "islands" in HTML, but
> that's now been effectively left behind, so there's nothing to gain from
> mentioning it here.
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> 3) The suggested revised language:
> --begin--
> MathML is supported in XHTML by Firefox, or Internet Explorer when used
> with the (free) MathPlayer plug-in, which interfaces with screen readers
> to make the math accessible. MathML is also supported in HTML by
> Internet Explorer and in an experimental version of Firefox, but due to
> the lack of universal MathML implementation in all browsers, HTML
> cross-platform compatibility is difficult to ensure.
> --end--
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> This should do it.
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> Steve Noble
> Director of Accessibility Policy
> Design Science, Inc.
> E-mail: SteveN@DesSci.com
> Phone: (502) 969-3088
> http://www.dessci.com/accessibility
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