Re: [office-accessibility] NY document format study -- Request for PublicComment

IBM Lotus Symphony has fully implemented MSAA/IA2. Now Symphony can support JAWS (a very popular AT tool), and should support other AT software that implements MSAA/IA2,e.g. Window-Eyes(not through fully testing). Symphony development team is contributing its Accessibility code to OpenOffice.org now.



Best Regards,



Mingfei Jia(樂隴滄)

IBM Workplace Client Technology

IBM China Software Development LAB, Beijing

Tel: 86-10-82782244-2493   Fax: 86-10-62982924

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robert_weir---12/20/2007 12:05:32 AM---Hi !







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12/20/2007 12:05 AM




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[office-accessibility] NY document format study -- Request for Public Comment










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