美国,马萨诸赛州,波士顿;2007年2月13日——国际标准组织OASIS今天宣布其成员已经通过投票接受办公应用程序开放文档标准(Open Document Format for Office Application)的1.1版本称为组织最高等级的OASIS标准。作为伤残人士和开放源代码支持者与商业软件开发商的独特联合协作所产出的成果,这个标准的新版本为解决伤残人员的需求而提供了访问性方面的加强。
英国Royal National Institute of the Blind(RNIB)的Dave Pawson说:“OpenDocument 1.1是一个能够将人员打印缺陷方便的转化为数据收集与整理系统数字有声读物标准的使用XML格式。OpenDocument v1.1的明确规范将在商业和私人所有格式都已经被弃用后的很长时间还依然可用。”
OpenDocument 1.1提供对于弱视或无视力或者有认知障碍用户的支持。该标准不但为诸如超链接、绘画对象及图像影射热点提供可选择描述文本,同时也能够在必要的时候为相同的对象提供较长的描述。
“我们对于我们今天取得的进步感到非常兴奋,” National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science的主席Curtis Chong说,“我们的观点随着时间的推移发生了变化,OpenDocument不再像我们以前想象的一样是一个令人生畏的东西。OASIS的流程展示了如果希望达成文档格式及操作工具真正的可访问性需要进行什么样的工作。”
在文本文档和表格以外,OpenDocument定义了演示文稿格式。“阅读演示文稿对于目盲的用户来说非常困难。通常情况下通过键盘进行浏览与演示文稿的视觉流不太相同。”OASIS ODF应用委员会联席主席来自IBM的Don Harbison说,“OpenDocument 1.1为作者添加了定义逻辑按键导航顺序的备选方案。”
此外OpenDocument可用性的改善还包括有由其他文件格式,如表格中的表头,导入时的结构语义保存,以及绘画及其相关题目说明的关联。
新版的OpenDocument反映了OASIS OpenDocument中由来自IBM、the Institute for Community Inclusion(ICI)、RNIB、Sun Microsystems及其它方面专家组成的可访问性子委员会工作成果。该子委员会的建议将会在由Adobe Systems、IBM、Intel、Novell、Sun Microsystems及其它成员组成的OASIS OpenDocument技术委员会的OpenDocument规范中得到体现
“我代表我们的委员会特别需要感谢RNIB、ICI以及其他帮助我们分析OpenDocument规范、识别缺陷、以及为改善访问性开发规范的组织及个人,”OASIS OpenDocument技术委员会主席,来自Sun Microsystems的Micheal Brauer说。
“1.1版本是OpenDocument OASIS标准发展的重要里程碑,”OASIS ODF应用委员会联席主席,来自Sun Microsystems的Erwin Tenhumberg说,“它的面世将解决OASIS访问性子委员会及其它人早前发现的问题。1.1版本解决了目前文档应用程序的问题并将文档格式提升到了一个全新的高度。”
OASIS OpenDocument技术委员会、访问性子委员会以及ODF应用委员会还将向公众开放。OASIS还主持有OpenDocument XML.org(http://opendocument.xml.org)这一关于本标准的社区网站。
对于OpenDocument 1.1的支持
IBM
"We've enjoyed positive feedback from the technical and disabled community about many aspects of ODF 1.1, but one underlying, enabling technology in particular has generated some excitement. I'm referring to IAccessible2, software interfaces that are now an open standard managed by the Linux Foundation, and which dramatically extend Microsoft Active Accessibility. IBM and many others were privileged to participate in the project, which enables assistive technology to work in a more granular way with ODF applications and many other environments."
- Richard Schwerdtfeger, IBM Distinguished Engineer, and co-chair of the OASIS Accessibility Subcommittee
Nokia
"Nokia is pleased to see the further evolution of OpenDocument to support accessibility, providing a schema that can satisfy the needs of both public and private organizations. Nokia is a strong supporter of open standards and sees the standardization of ODF 1.1 as an important milestone in establishing a truly open and useful standard for document formats."
- Frederick Hirsch, Senior Architect, Nokia
Novell
"ODF is the default file format for users of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and the Novell Edition of OpenOffice, and we are a strong supporter of ODF. ODF has unique vendor and community support, Novell encourages its customers to use ODF, and we are proud to participate in the development and evangelism of ODF."
- Nat Friedman, vice president and chief technology officer, Linux and Open Source at Novell
Red Hat
"Red Hat is pleased to be able to see the release of the OpenDocument 1.1 OASIS Standard. OpenDocument is very important to allow people to collaborate in an increasingly heterogeneous and global environment."
- Dr Mark Little, Director of Standards for Red Hat
Sun Microsystems
"Sun is proud to have contributed and worked on OpenDocument 1.1, which was developed in record time and we expect will be adopted also in record time. This shows what happens when whole communities of interest -- in this case commercial enterprises, open source communities and accessibility ones -- collaborate and share their vision towards reaching a common goal."
- Crawford Beveridge, Executive Vice President and Chairman, EMEA, APAC and the Americas, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
相关信息:
OASIS OpenDocument技术委员会:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/
OASIS ODF应用委员会:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/odf-adoption/
OpenDocument访问性常见问题解答:
http://opendocument.xml.org/accessibility-faq
Cover Pages技术报告:
http://xml.coverpages.org/odf.html
关于OASIS:
OASIS(结构化信息标准促进组织)是一个推动电子商务标准发展、融合与应用的非营利性国际组织。OASIS成员将自己设定他们的技术日程,并使用专为促成产业界达成一致并联合不同声音而设计的简易的开放流程。组织为Web服务、安全、电子商务及公众领域及专门程序市场的标准化工作提供开放标准。自1993年成立以来,OASIS已经有来自超过100个国家的600多个组织机构的5000多个成员。
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