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

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Thanks, Peter.

This question comes up in Section Q,
where they deal with miscellaneous criticisms of ODF.  Not sure why
they didn't include it among the other Section M accessibility questions.

-Rob

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Peter.Korn@Sun.COM wrote on 12/19/2007 06:23:58 PM:

> Hi Rob,
> 
> I'm not seeing that question in the PDF.  I see a bunch of questions
> relating to accessibility (section "M", questions 39-43).
> 
> It is a valid concern - whether existing AT solutions will work with
ODF 
> - but it is a concern that has been I believe adequately addressed
with 
> both IBM's work in IAccessible2 and support of that via JAWS and 
> WindowEyes (and "coming soon" support in OOo), and perhaps
more 
> importantly via the Sun ODF Plugin to MS-Office which means that *all*
> AT that supports MS office (and thus .doc/.xls/.ppt/.docx/...) will
> equally well support ODF.  Recall that users of MS-Office 2003
will use 
> something very much akin to the Sun plugin for reading .docx files
- and 
> that is how the majority of AT users will use .docx.  Many users
will 
> find Office 2007 unfamiliar and uncomfortable, and moving to it will
> require an upgrade in their AT (esp. if it is also an upgrade to Vista).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> >
> > 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 
> 
> 
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