Minutes: July 28 ODF Accessibility Subcommittee Meeting

[Pete Brunet <brunet@us.ibm.com>]

Attendees: Rich Schwerdtfeger (chair),
Peter Korn (co-chair), Malte Timmerman, Pete Brunet, Tatsuya, Janina, Hiro

Prior minutes - approved

Section 3.4
RS: Added text blinking as follows

This in effect overrides office application
response to:

• table:refresh-delay
• 15.8.31 text blinking

RS: Fixed some grammar
PK/RS: During the meeting fixed the
missing line numbers using Format, Paragraph, Numbering, Include this paragraph

JS: Please move second bullet to top

JS: Need bullet(s) for blind users (slow
down animations or turn them off - so focus doesn't get grabbed)

• May impede the ability for blind users to focus on specific content locations
• May impede the ability of blind users to focus on specific content.

Table Schema
RS: ODF 1.1 presentations support tables
via OLE embedding.  Do we discuss this or ignore it since this is
a 1.2 doc?  What if someone pulls in a 1.1 doc?
PK: Will take action item to add explanation
that this feature is no longer supported and that native ODF tables are
used in 1.2

<chart:data-label> - This is label
text for data points in a chart.  
All: Access to this is not important;
access to the backing table is what is important

Rich's progress on action item to provide
base doc for ODF 1.2 changes
ODF doc is still not ready for us to
recommend edits.  They are restructuring it; it's too big; they want
to separate out schema; don't know schedule; suspect September date will
slip.

Action items:

• 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.
• Janina to clarify text in section 3.4
• 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.
• Peter will add explanation that this ODF 1.1 OLE embedding for presentation tables is no longer supported and that native ODF tables are used in 1.2
• Pete to investigate if there are any new charts not backed by tables
• Pete to document how to navigate to those tables in OpenOffice and Symphony.
• 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.
• Rich 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).

Pete Brunet
                    
                     
                     
         
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