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

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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 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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