Hi Rich,
Where are you seeing dynamic updates?
My impression was that the updates were all from the application
pulling data from the server. I don't remember seeing anything in
ODF where the document could register for change notifications from the
database and thereby get asynchronous updates.
-Rob
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Richard Schwerdtfeger <> wrote
on 06/02/2008 07:10:39 PM:
> The ODF Accessibility SC would like to know if the ODF TC has
> considered allowing the author to specify how the office application
> should respond to dynamic updates resulting to database connections
> in the document to back end servers:
>
> For example:
> Will some updates require an alert to the user?
> should the update scroll to view?
> Do you want to include meta data for the above
to assist the office
> application in determining rendering of the changed data?
>
> These are issues we addressed when addressed in the accessibility
of
> rich internet applications when adding live region support to WAI-ARIA.
>
> Rich
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
> Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist
> Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board
> blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer
