Accessibility matters

I have just returned from CSUN, which is a great Accessibility conference.

Beside support for Assistive Technology, and maybe making accessible/tagged PDF the default PDF export in OOo, there is one thing that helps many people a lot: Full keyboard accessibility.

Well, in general, OOo should be full keyboard accessible, because this is a basic requirement for Accessibility and for section 508 compliance.

But what does it help if you can't figure out HOW to do something with the keyboard?

If you run in this situation, please don't ignore it. If the online help doesn't list the keyboard solution, file an issue for this, so someone completes the help content.

An other thing that would really help here: (Incremental) Search in the keyboard customization dialog.

There is even already a specification for rework on this dialog. Unfortunately this is somewhat stalled. Would be great if some volunteers would like to work on this.

And finally: Accessibility and Usability go hand in hand. If you think something is not usable, please come to the mailing list from the user experience team, and discuss the things you would like to improve.

tags: accessibility odf openoffice.org