ODF Accessibility SC Agenda April 10, 2008

[Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>]

ODF Accessibility SC Agenda April 10, 2008

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Agenda: April 10 ODF Accessibility SC Meeting

It has been a while since we have had a meeting. This meeting is largely to synch up and start scheduling and get commitments to finishing up accessibility work on ODF 1.2 and its corresponding guidelines

1. Assign scribe and role call
2. Approve February 14 Minutes: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-accessibility/email/archives/200802/msg00006.html
3. Rescheduling Meeting Time
4. Work Items for ODF 1.2 specfications.

Reference Document: ODF 1.2 Draft 6 http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/download.php/25268/OpenDocument-v1.2-draft6.odt - requirements to the TC
Note the timeline

• ODF 1.2 technical drafting complete May 2008
• ODF 1.2 public review June-July 2008
• ODF 1.2 approved as OASIS Standard - Sept 2008
• ODF 1.2 approved as an ISO standard - Summer 2009

* [unassigned] How does ODF do language tagging of a range of text?  Font attributes?  And how best to tag a string as "Grade 2 English Braille", vs. "music Braille in German".  
* Hiro - Write proposed modification to 8.1.1 to add caption-id for table, and 9.2.15.2 to include tables - <ref name="common-draw-caption-id-attlist"/> 
* Hiro to provide more information related to table headers (from http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-accessibility/email/archives/200711/msg00007.html) 
* Address David's concern that headings were made available in an easy to discern way. ... H2s followed by H1s etc. He obtained that structure from an additional file.  Came back in an OOo update, and that information was no longer available.  Was Dave relying on optional attributes that are no longer there, or did OOo break the spec.?  
   The request to the main TC: please ensure that this heading information is available & stable & in a relatively-easy to discern way
* Assign team members to review updated draft when it comes out.

5. Work Items ODF Accessibility Guidelines 1.1

* Peter to wrap up ODF 1.1 Accessibility guidlines http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/office-accessibility/v1.0/cd01/ODF_Accessibility_Guidelines-v1.0.odt

6. Work Items ODF Accessibility Guidelines 1.2

* Rich to find deadlines for ODF 1.2; also to verify whether TC would like to see our 1.2 guidelines doc delivered at same time (in same "bundle") as 1.2 spec.
* Pete Brunet: Provide guidelines as to how to supply tracking change information to ATs.
  -> Malte & Pete & others have been looking at how to expose document revision information in platform a11y APIs, so they can be exposed via IAcc2 and ATK/AT-SPI.  Are converging on a specification. 
Miscellaneous Action items
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 * [unassigned] Can OOo be a good codebase for Marc to start from for the Icon (which is ARM based)
 * Results: PeteB to set up a meeting at CSUN around the revision API (already looking to set up an IAcc2 meeting & an OpenA11y meeting at CSUN)

(See attached file: ODF_Accessibility_Guidelines_v1.0-NEW.odt)(See attached file: ODF_Accessibility_Guidelines_v1.0-NEW.pdf)(See attached file: ODF_Accessibility_Guidelines_v1.0-NEW.zip)

4. ODF Accessibility Guidelines for ODF 1.2 
- See action items below
- Should we provide any direction on animations?
5. ODF 1.2 Draft 6 http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/download.php/25268/OpenDocument-v1.2-draft6.odt - requirements to the TC

Action Items for ODF Accessibility Guidelines for 1.2

Group Actions

• Modify next version of accessibility guidelines to ensure applications respond to system font and color settings.
• Add wording to the next revison of the accessibilty guidelines to allow control of the animation rate of
  images in a presentation
• Modify accessibility guidelines to state how common field attributes (section 6.7 of the ODF 1.2 spec.) should be supplied to the AT. The field attributes would
  indicate whether something were a boolean, gregorian date, etc.

Janina actions: create new wording for reload delay (section 3.13.2) which would allow user agents to control the reload delay and to state the
WCAG requirements for content refreshing to prevent seizures. We need wording to provide control over flashing Here are some related links

• http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/#general-thresholddef
• http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20060427/#seizure-does-not-violate

Pete Brunet: Provide guidelines as to how to supply tracking change information to ATs.

Hiro: Provide wording in the to adress dynamic, asynchronous updates There are several topics in the specs related to “asynchronous automatic update” of contents or values. Automatic updates should be carefully presented to assistive technologies through accessibility APIs. Documents are becoming more dynamic- async updates - some examples: linked tables, database ranges, scritping, text sections, DDE connecdtions. 


Rich Schwerdtfeger
Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review  Board
blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer

ODF_Accessibility_Guidelines_v1.0-NEW.odt

ODF_Accessibility_Guidelines_v1.0-NEW.pdf

ODF_Accessibility_Guidelines_v1.0-NEW.zip