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

["Mike Paciello" <mpaciello@paciellogroup.com>]

Peter -

Not sure whether this is an indication of the whether this weeks meeting is
cancelled or not, given your unavailability. Please confirm. 

Second, I'm sure that everyone will understand that as TEITAC co-chair, it's
important for me to remain neutral to recommendations. So I won't be
contributing to this effort. However, I would encourage all other team
members, particulary our international contributors to offer their insight.

Regards,

Mike 


Mike Paciello
Cell: +1.603.566.7713

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter.Korn@Sun.COM [mailto:Peter.Korn@Sun.COM] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:35 PM
To: office-accessibility@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] A tweak to the Section 4.5

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_se
ction_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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> 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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