Re: ODF Accessibility Guidelines

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

Hi Rob,

Thanks for driving this. Sun isn't attending the Assistive Technology 
Industry Association meeting that runs January 30th to February 2nd (see 
http://atia.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageID=3280), but perhaps others are 
who might want to use that as a venue for greater exposure.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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> At Monday's call we agreed to have an electronic ballot on approving 
> the Guidelines as a Committee Specification. It usually takes a few 
> days to set up that ballot, and then 7 days to conduct the ballot. We 
> can then post the documents with the cover/title page text indicating 
> the new "Committee Specification" status.
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> That is how it normally goes.
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> Is there anything coming up,a conference or something where you have a 
> need for getting some exposure of this document sooner?
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> -Rob
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> Wonderful. I was not aware that conversions were performed.
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> Robert, will the TC post these to the public web site or do you need 
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> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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> Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
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> Hi Rich,
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> The guidelines **are** in those formats; otherwise the public review 
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> _http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/office-accessibility/v1.0/cd01/_
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> *From:* Richard Schwerdtfeger [mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com] *
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> Hi Rob,
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> We do not have the guidelines in those formats. We will need to 
> produce them.
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> Thanks,
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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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> Hi Rich,
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> This is good news. Congratulations to the subcommittee for reaching 
> this milestone.
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> The TC policy says the following: "All TC-approved versions of 
> documents (i.e. Committee Drafts, Public Review Drafts, and Committee 
> Specifications) must be delivered to the TC’s document repository in 
> the (1) editable source, (2) HTML or XHTML, and (3) PDF formats."
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> Do you have copies of this candidate in these other formats as well?
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> There has been some talk, but no formal plan, around having an 
> informative "Guide for Implementors", of which the Accessibility 
> Guidelines might feature. Other parts might be a Metadata Guidelines, 
> Spreadsheet Test Cases, etc. In fact, we were just talking about this 
> on the Metadata Subcommittee call earlier this week, where it was 
> suggested that we follow the same template as the Accessibility 
> Guidelines in order to make it easier to combine later.
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> ODF 1.2 schedule -- we're thinking Q2 for public review & vote as 
> OASIS Standard, followed by submission to JTC1. But note that the 
> Guide for Implementors can be done as a Committee Specification at any 
> time, and we probably won't submit that to JTC1.
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> Rob, Michael,
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> The ODF Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 
> (_http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-accessibility/download.php/25664/ODF_Accessibility_Guidelines_v1.0-candidate.odt_) 
> completed its public review on December 21 and no comments were 
> received. The group has voted that these guidelines be posted to the 
> public OASIS web site for ODF. If this requires Committee Specifcation 
> Status we would ask that the ODF TC vote on this.
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> What is the process moving forward so that we can get the guidelines 
> public on the OASIS site?
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> We are going to begin on a revised version of the guidelines targeted 
> at ODF 1.2. Although the guidelines are non-normative Peter thought 
> there would be a bundling of the guidelines with a collection of 
> documents related to ODF 1.2. Is this true? We will need to know the 
> timeline for 1.2. Looking at the ODF TC internal site we have not seen 
> a revision to the ODF 1.2 specification since September so perhaps 
> this has been pushed out. What is the timeline for ODF 1.2?
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> Thanks,
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> Rich
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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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