Re: [office-accessibility] NY document format study -- Request forPublic Comment

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

Hi Rob,

I see it now, thanks.


Peter

> 
> 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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