Re: accessibility of abw format

Hello,

Yes, as far as the file format is concerned is concerned the question
should be as you stated: "How can the metadata and structural markup
in Abiword be improved to better support accessibility needs?"
Indeed, I think that we can learn a lot from analysis of
accessibility of OpenOffice and .dot format by Peter Korn who worked
in Sun Microsystems currently in Oracle.
http://blogs.oracle.com/korn/

In addition, it may be worth to develop plugins which may produce
output in Braille, DAISY or .epub formats.

I am willing to help in testing accessibility with my friends who are
disabled persons.

Best wishes,

Vedran Vucic

Quoting Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>:

>
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 vedran.vucic@gnulinuxcentar.org wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:23:05 -0500
>> From: vedran.vucic@gnulinuxcentar.org
>> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
>> Subject: accessibility of abw format
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there any study on accessibility of abw format.
>
> To the best of my knowledge no there is no study on the accessibility of
> the ABW file format. (I am speaking as an active user of abiword who
> follows development and reads these lists, one of the developers might be
> aware of studies I'm not familiar with.)
>
> I find the question interesting, normally I would think of accessibility
> in terms of programs, tools, and toolkits providing accessibility
> features, rather than accessibility being an inherent quality of the film
> format. How does a file format better serve accessibility beyond using
> existing open standards and including good metadata? Maybe the question
> could be better asked as: How can the metadata and structural markup in
> Abiword be improved to better support accessibility needs?
>
> I understand that an image format would need to support a lot of metadata
> to help with accessiblity and a video format would need to support
> subtitles and closed captions. If you know I'd be interested to read what
> accessibility features you would expect a Word Processing file format to
> include?
>
> Regards
>
> Alan H.
>

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Received on Mon Aug 8 09:04:52 2011