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Thursday, 20 Mar 2008
Accessibility matters
Malte Timmermann

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.



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Thursday, 05 Jul 2007
OOo Accessibility on Windows via IAccessible2
Malte Timmermann

IAccessible2 (IA2) is currently the most promising way for making OOo well accessible on Windows.

It would be great if we could start a project on OOo to implement IA2 in a similar way like we already implemented GNOME Accessibility.

If you are interested in helping on this, look for details here and make sure to subscribe to dev@openoffice.org - every help is welcome.

You wonder why I write this blog, although I already wrote everything on the mailing lists?

Well - I am sure many people are reading this blog without being subscribed to any OOo Mailing List.

Accessibility is a very important topic, so people who didn't consider participating in OOo development right now, but who have strong interest in Accessibility, might consider supporting this - maybe one of the AT vendors itself?

 

 

 

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