RE: [office-accessibility] Minutes from 30May07 OASIS ODF accessibilitysubcommittee meeting

I have sent a note to Steve. My admin is working to arrange a meeting.

Rich Schwerdtfeger

Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist

Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review  Board

blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer

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06/02/2007 06:34 AM

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RE: [office-accessibility] Minutes from 30May07 OASIS ODF accessibility subcommittee meeting

Peter -

One slight correcton on Kurzweil contact action item. On Thursday, Steve

Noble recommended Stephen Baum of Kurzweil. I agreed that Stephen was a very

good contact and suggested Rich contact Stephen. Stephen's contact

information is as follows:

Stephen Baum []

- Mike 

Mike Paciello

Cell: +1.603.566.7713

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Attendees

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Janina Sajka

Steve Nobel

Tatsuya Ishihara

Peter Korn

1) Approve minutes for last ODF Accessibility SC Meeting 

http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office-accessibility/email/arch

ives/200705/msg00013.html 

  -> Minutes approved

2) Status of Mac's review of the ODF 1.1 Accessibility Guidelines?  

[Mike Paciello?]

 -> Mak is on target to have the guide back to us by June 15th

3) Rich's Initial review of changes to ODF 1.2 

(http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/download.php/23991/Open

Document-v1.2-draft3.odt) 

3.1.13 <meta:auto_reload>and 3.1.13 <meta:ReloadDelay> Need to modify 

developer guidelines to ensure acceptable reload times (don't want to 

cause a seizure) to provide author guidance in line with WCAG 2. We need 

to define what an acceptable reload delay is.

3.1.14 <meta:hyperlink-behaviour> Needs to specify what happens when a 

hyperlink is activated. we should say something about point of regard in 

our developer guidelines

3.2/3/3 User Defined/Custom meta data - need to see what will do with 

this. we could reuse user-defined meta data to store added semantics 

such as for business presentations.

4.6 Do we need to do more with Change Tracking?

8.2.4 Header Rows - the author of this section asks if this text is 

acceptable for the use of row headers (Rich says yes)

To facilitate accessibility the element must be used to encapsulate row 

headers. Accessibility is diminished by the use of styles to designate 

row headers.

8.2.6 Subtables - Subtables must be deprecated. Tables alters the 

row/column references such that users who are blind get disoriented 

within the table. Note: Rich did send an email to Rob Weir regarding 

deprecating Subtables.

-> No disagreements on the call with the issues that Rich raises; 

agreement with his proposals.  The group has not sufficiently reviewed 

the 1.2 spec. to have any additions to these.

4) MathML - Do we need to do more with MathML?

 -> Steve Nobel looked over the draft 1.2 spec. for MathML.  Just a 

pointer to the W3C spec.  Steve Nobel (who will get with Neil Soiffer) 

to take a second look at it.  Will also take a look at the spec. for 

MathML in OpenXML

5) Kurzweil Action Item - Mike, do we have a technical contact?

 -> No word from Mike

6) Request to the group: review TEITAC draft for accessible content as 

it pertains to ODF 1.2

http://teitac.org/wiki/Web_and_Software:_Draft_2#Recommendations_on_a_new_se

ction_to_cover_content_formats 

  -> Janina, Steve to look over this text, provide their thoughts on 

both the recommendations themselves, and also on how ODF 1.1/1.2 

addresses these recommendations.

7) Upcoming vacation for Peter...  will be out June 12 - June 21.