[libreoffice-marketing] Fw: [libreoffice-accessibility] AccessODF, accessibility checker for Writer files

Hi :)
I thought people might like to see that although IBM are with-holding code that could help with 
accessibility issues there are other people working on some of the problems
Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Wed, 9/11/11, Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> wrote:

From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
Subject: [libreoffice-accessibility] AccessODF, accessibility checker for Writer files
To: accessibility@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 9 November, 2011, 12:30

Hi,

Yesterday, the K.U.Leuven released AccessODF, a new open-source extension for LibreOffice Writer 
and OpenOffice.org Writer that helps authors evaluate and repair accessibility issues. You can 
download the extension from <http://sourceforge.net/projects/accessodf/>. A press release is 
available at <http://accessodf.sourceforge.net/PressRelease_Extensions_20111108.odt> and 
<http://accessodf.sourceforge.net/PressRelease_Extensions_20111108.pdf>.
The extension does not only identify accessibility issues and provide repair suggestions (like 
Microsoft Office 2010) but also provides automatic or semi-automatic repair functionality where 
possible. For example, if the checker finds an empty heading or a table where rows are allowed to 
break across pages, you can simply press the repair button to fix that ("automatic repair"). If the 
checker finds an image without alt text, pressing the repair button will open the dialog where you 
can enter a text alternative, which saves you a few steps ("semi-automatic repair").
AccessODF complements to other extensions: odt2daisy, which exports Writer documents to DAISY, and 
odt2braille, which exports Writer documents to a Braille format or sends them to an embosser. Both 
extensions are available on SourceForge. Accessibility evaluation was a feature frequently 
requested by users of odt2daisy and odt2braille.

Unfortunately, due to limitations in the APIs provided by LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org, the 
AccessODF user interface is not accessible to screen reader users and other keyboard users. (This 
will require changes in the office suites.)

This is the first release of AccessODF, and I look forward to comments and suggestions.

AccessODF was developed within the AEGIS project, an R&D project funded by the European Commission 
that aims at integrating more accessibility into mainstream software. Most of the software 
developed by AEGIS is or will be available under an open-source licence.

Best regards,

Christophe

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