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Subject:Re: [office-accessibility] NY document format study -- Request forPublic Comment
From:Peter Korn (Pete@Sun.COM)
Date:Dec 20, 2007 1:54:19 pm
List:org.oasis-open.lists.office-accessibility

Hi Rob,

I see it now, thanks.

Peter

Thanks, Peter.

This question comes up in Section Q, where they deal with miscellaneous criticisms of ODF. Not sure why they didn't include it among the other Section M accessibility questions.

-Rob

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Pete@Sun.COM wrote on 12/19/2007 06:23:58 PM:

Hi Rob,

I'm not seeing that question in the PDF. I see a bunch of questions relating to accessibility (section "M", questions 39-43).

It is a valid concern - whether existing AT solutions will work with ODF - but it is a concern that has been I believe adequately addressed with both IBM's work in IAccessible2 and support of that via JAWS and WindowEyes (and "coming soon" support in OOo), and perhaps more importantly via the Sun ODF Plugin to MS-Office which means that *all* AT that supports MS office (and thus .doc/.xls/.ppt/.docx/...) will equally well support ODF. Recall that users of MS-Office 2003 will use something very much akin to the Sun plugin for reading .docx files - and that is how the majority of AT users will use .docx. Many users will find Office 2007 unfamiliar and uncomfortable, and moving to it will require an upgrade in their AT (esp. if it is also an upgrade to Vista).

Regards,

Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Hi !

You may have heard that New York has just recently put out a Request for Public Comment on "A study concerning electronic record policy for New York State."

The list of questions are at the following URL, and the PDF file linked from it: http://www.oft.state.ny.us/oftnews/erecords-study.htm

One question (#57 in the PDF) refers to a criticism of ODF (no source given), which is stated as:

"Another criticism of ODF has been that many vendors of assistive technology software have not ported their software to ODF-based applications."

The questionnaire then whether this is a valid criticism.

Any ideas on this?

Thanks,

-Rob

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