dynamic updates

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

The ODF Accessibility SC would like to know if the ODF TC has considered allowing the author to specify how the office application should respond to dynamic updates resulting to database connections in the document to back end servers:

For example:

• Will some updates require an alert to the user?
• should the update scroll to view?
• Do you want to include meta data for the above to assist the office application in determining rendering of the changed data?

These are issues we addressed when addressed in the accessibility of rich internet applications when adding live region support to WAI-ARIA. 

Rich

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