Wednesday March 26, 2008 Malte about some of his work at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Wednesday March 26, 2008 Document Freedom Day Today is Document Freedom Day! This is great. And because it is about open document standards, it's mainly about ... yes, the Open Document Format (ODF), as you can read at the Document Standards page.
Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Mar 26 2008, 03:03:55 PM CET ) Permalink Comments [0]
Thursday March 20, 2008 Back from CSUN Last week I was attending the CSUN conference - probably the biggest and most exciting Accessibility conference in the world. The different presentations made it clear: Web Accessibility, ARIA and AJAX are still very hot topics. For Windows Accessibility, IAccessible2 is still making a lot of progress. Some Screen Readers already have support for it, and I hope we will have it in OpenOffice.org soon. I gave a small talk in an IAccessible2 session, my presentation can be found here. Of course I have used the cool PDF export in OpenOffice.org, which allows you to create well accessible, tagged PDF. Unfortunately, creating tagged PDF is not the default, because of the increased file size. I hope we will change the default eventually. For now, use the "Export as PDF..." menu item in the file menu, which will give you a dialog where you can check the option to create tagged PDF. The tool bar item skips this dialog. In parallel to IAccessible2 on Windows, we are also working on support for the Mac OS X Accessibility Framework! We have shown the latest builds to some AT vendors, and it seems they are very exited about this. From what I heard, not many applications on Mac OS X have good support for this right now. So with all our Accessibility work going on, I am very confident that OpenOffice.org 3.x will be very accessible on many different platforms, with native support for the platform specific Accessibility frameworks!
Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Mar 20 2008, 07:12:47 PM CET ) Permalink Comments [0]
Thursday March 06, 2008 OpenOffice.org goes LGPL v3! OpenOffice.org will switch to LGPL v3 with the upcoming OOo 3.0 Beta. Beside that, we will also exchange the old Joint Copyright Assignment (JCA) with the Sun Microsystems Inc. Contributor Agreement (SCA), which has some advantages for contributors. This change is effective immediately. More details can be found here. Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Mar 06 2008, 08:02:10 PM CET ) Permalink Comments [0]
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