People on this thread might benefit from the blog by Peter Korn about
MassGov & Accessibility...
I point to it on www.PlexNex.com
-Sam
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 11:25 +0000, Jonathon Blake wrote:
a) The issue is not creating the documents, but being able to find
the tools to create the documents.
b) If the menu contains every option that the icons have, then the
icons are irrelevant to a11y.
Point is that both Sun and IBM have a lot of expertise in accessibility.
There is also expertise in the community. All this is new and
development takes time but this development will take place. Even if it
takes longer than the 2007 deadline, Ma already said they will delay
implementing the policy so its all a storm in a teacup. MS
XML-implementation as a default file format is not available, neither is
a Jaws replacement for OOo. I think both of these things will happen,
probably not at the same time. However Ma is a good test base to find
out all the arguments against and get them addressed. Even if a Jaws
replacement was a showstopper at this point of time its not that big a
deal because the work will get done if its that big a priority and the
price differential for disabled people will be huge between an Open
Source solution and the current proprietary offering. It'll probably end
up "good bye Freedom Scientific" as a side-effect of the main thrust if
indeed they are over-priced.
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