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Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] Minutes: February 10 Accessibility SubteamMeeting
- From: Nathaniel S Borenstein <nborenst@us.ibm.com>
- To: Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:18:57 -0500
Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM> wrote on 02/14/2006
09:03:35 PM:
> You are a distinguished engineer at IBM. You have presumably
been
> developing software for a long time. How many of the ODF documents
that
> you have created, which include images, have those images labeled?
Well, the only way I've ever created an ODF document
is by using Workplace or Open Office, and I certainly don't remember being
*prompted* for labels by either of them.
> More documentation about such things at places like
> http://www.ataccess.org/ is certainly a good and welcome thing. But
> also largely ineffective at reaching the masses of thoughtful, senior
> technical folks like yourself, let alone the unwashed masses.
But neither of those are who I was suggesting we try
to reach here. I was suggesting people who are actually writing software,
unlike "senior technical folks like me" who haven't done so in
over a decade...
> The minefield/body that is buried is actually a very large elephant,
and
> he is in the middle of our room. That elephant is that folks
don't
> create accessible content - and a larger and larger fraction of the
> world population is now creating content that other folks want to
read
> (Gutenberg's printing press was nothing compared to the web).
Right. Barrier one to creating accessible content
is if such content can't be created -- that's fixing the "holes"
in ODF. Barrier two is if the content creation software doesn't encourage
the creation of such content. Barrier three is if the people who
write such software don't know anything about these issues. I was
focusing on the third, but we need to worry about all three.
Most of you have probably been through these discussions
a hundred times before, and I apologize for any naivete on my part. My
only fear is that the best is the enemy of the good -- if we try to solve
all aspects of the accessibility challenge, we won't end up solving any
of them. -- Nathaniel
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