Hi Tom,
At 13:48 10-11-2011, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Is there a Press Release that is not a download? If there is a
web-page then i can link to it from the page
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_In_The_Press
We've just added it. You can link to the page at
<http://accessodf.sourceforge.net/PressRelease_Extensions_20111108.xhtml>.
Best regards,
Christophe
Regards from
Tom :)
--- On Wed, 9/11/11, Christophe Strobbe
<[email protected]> wrote:
From: Christophe Strobbe <[email protected]>
Subject: [libreoffice-accessibility] AccessODF, accessibility
checker for Writer files
To: [email protected]
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/>http://sourceforge.net/projects/accessodf/>.
A press release is available at
<<http://accessodf.sourceforge.net/PressRelease_Extensions_20111108.odt>http://accessodf.sourceforge.net/PressRelease_Extensions_20111108.odt>
and
<<http://accessodf.sourceforge.net/PressRelease_Extensions_20111108.pdf>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
-- Christophe Strobbe
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K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD
Research Group on Document Architectures
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442
B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee
BELGIUM
tel: +32 16 32 85 51
http://www.docarch.be/
Twitter: @RabelaisA11y
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