Agenda: July 14 ODF Accessibility Subcommittee Meeting (revisiont toinclude Pete's IA2 event review)

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

Dear colleagues,

This is the agenda for the OASIS ODF Accessibility subcommittee meeting: Monday July 14, at 7am PT / 9am CT / 10am ET / 4pm CET / 11pm Japan time. Please use our usual (and unpublished) dial-in, and our usual IRC channel: &office-accessibility at irc.oasis-open.org

Based on the last discussion with the ODF TC we need to be looking to get things wrapped in September regarding requirements. We do face some hurdles as we don't feel the ODF 1.2 spec. is really ready for review. So I suggest we focus our energies on the other general work areas, to with:

a. General ODF Accessibility Guidelines improvements separate from the v1.2 work
b. Mike Paciello's "get the word out" campaign

You will see another update of the ODF 1.2 Accessibility Guidelines and related discussion points.

Suggested agenda:

1. Minutes June 30 Meeting? A bit difficult to put an agenda together without knowing what was discussed at the last meeting. Can someone post these before Monday?

2. Accessibility Awareness:

• Review Mike's proposal (attached)
• Address Mike's proposal to start a blog: Is this the appropriate place.
  Register for the site at http://opendocument.xml.org/user/register then choose
  the "Submit blog" link at http://opendocument.xml.org/blogs
  

3. Review of the non-ODF v1.2 status of the OASIS ODF Accessibility Guidelines.  Latest draft can be found attached, with change tracking showing what is new (see specifically Section 3.4 starting on page 26 and Appendix A on page 55).  I believe Rich was sheepherding this draft, collecting the text to then pass over to me.

• Section 3.4
  • Does the group like the format and content?
  • Triggering Seizures (written by Janina). Rich: This was integrated in section 3.4.1 but there is a question as to whether there is an issue. The refresh rates may be in seconds but the spec. is unclear. If it is in seconds, seizures caused by page refreshes are a non-issue. We need clarification in the ODF Specification.
• Janina to 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.
  
• Peter to add a new section with guidelines as to how to provide tracking information to ATs
  
• Peter to modify guidelines to ensure applications respond to system font and color settings.
  
• Rich to add wording to the next revision with text to allow control of the animation rate of images in a presentation [is this done as part of the 3.4 work?]
  • 3.4.3 I included Hiro and Tatsuya's latest text http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-accessibility/email/archives/200806/msg00035.html
    However, I have questions which are marked in the document.
    Also related is Pete's review of events which are not in synch (there is no reference to an IA2 change event in Hiro and Tatsuya's proposal): -open.org/archives/office-accessibility/200806/msg00026.html
    Let's review this section.
  • 3.4.4 Is ready for review.
    
• Pete confirmed that native table support is now in the schema! http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-accessibility/email/archives/200806/msg00033.html
  How should we modify section 3.1.7. Tables are now in ODF 1.2 for presentations. Do we address older versions of ODF? The bandaid for ODF 1.1 was to convert to an embedded accessible spreadsheet (OLE for Windows).
  
  

Are there others I have failed to capture (beyond anything new for ODF v1.2)?

3. Discussion of Pete's Chart Accessibility Analysis: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-accessibility/email/archives/200806/msg00032.html

    Did Michael Brauer address your question regarding ill-defined chart information? Is someone working on it in the TC?

5. Old action items from before;

• ACTION: Steve Noble to look at formulas specification identify data that would update frequently, such as volatile formula information that would require the Office application to inform the AT of updates sections. Will complete by next meeting.
  
• ACTION: Peter Korn to provide guidelines as to how to provide tracking information to ATs; and modify guidelines to ensure applications respond to system font and color settings.
  
• ACTION: Rich Schwerdtfeger to provide base document for ODF 1.2 change specification (starting with caption-id reference) to Mike Paciello. Mike is to own the requirements document for ODF 1.2 which will be submitted to the ODF TC. Rich is waiting on a decision as to where the ODF schema is to reside (separate or within the base document).
  
  

Latest Office 1.2 specification: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/download.php/28781/OpenDocument-v1.2draft7-4.odt



(See attached file: odfguide-rich2.odt)(See attached file: ODF Awareness Campaign Plans.odt)


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

odfguide-rich2.odt

ODF Awareness Campaign Plans.odt