Re: [office-accessibility] NY document format study -- Request for PublicComment

[Ming Fei Jia <jiamingf@cn.ibm.com>]

IBM Lotus Symphony has fully implemented MSAA/IA2. Now Symphony can support JAWS (a very popular AT tool), and should support other AT software that implements MSAA/IA2,e.g. Window-Eyes(not through fully testing). Symphony development team is contributing its Accessibility code to OpenOffice.org now.

Best Regards,

Mingfei Jia(¼ÖÃ÷·É)
IBM Workplace Client Technology
IBM China Software Development LAB, Beijing
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robert_weir---12/20/2007 12:05:32 AM---Hi !

From:	robert_weir@us.ibm.com
To:	office-accessibility@lists.oasis-open.org
Date:	12/20/2007 12:05 AM
Subject:	[office-accessibility] NY document format study -- Request for Public Comment

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Hi !

You may have heard that New York has just recently put out a Request for 
Public Comment on "A study concerning electronic record policy for New 
York State."

The list of questions are at the following URL, and the PDF file linked 
from it:   http://www.oft.state.ny.us/oftnews/erecords-study.htm

One question (#57 in the PDF) refers to a criticism of ODF  (no source 
given), which is stated as:

"Another criticism of ODF has been that many vendors of assistive 
technology software have not ported their software to ODF-based 
applications."

The questionnaire then whether this is a valid criticism. 

Any ideas on this? 

Thanks,

-Rob