Thank you Patrick. I will write up the proposal for alternative text accordingly.
Rich Schwerdtfeger
Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
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Patrick Durusau <>
Patrick Durusau <>
04/26/2006 10:17 AM
Please respond to
To
Nathaniel S Borenstein/Concord/IBM@IBMUS
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, Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS,
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Re: [office] Important question from Accessibility SC
Nathaniel,
Good question!
In terms of "textual description" I am not sure that reuse of draw:name,
for example, would be appropriate. Those attributes already have
legitimate uses and "reuse" might step on some of those uses.
With that in mind, I think adding an attribute would be the best way to
handle this issue.
Hope you are having a great day!
Patrick
Nathaniel S Borenstein wrote:
>
> The accessibility committee has a question that it wishes to pose to
> the full TC.
>
> There are several places where ODF currently lacks a way to specify an
> alternative textual description of a non-textual object. In such
> cases, we could either invent a new tag or reuse an existing tag in
> what seems (to us) to be a reasonable way. In particular, we're
> wondering whether or not we can simply use draw:name, svg:desc, and
> office:name for such a purpose. Would the TC recommend doing so, or
> would it be preferable for us to create a new tag such as svg:title?
> Obviously either approach will work, but we aren't sure which is
> better. All opinions are invited. -- Nathaniel
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