Re: accessibility of abw format

On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 vedran.vucic@gnulinuxcentar.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:23:05 -0500
> From: vedran.vucic@gnulinuxcentar.org
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: accessibility of abw format
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there any study on accessibility of abw format.

To the best of my knowledge no there is no study on the accessibility of
the ABW file format. (I am speaking as an active user of abiword who
follows development and reads these lists, one of the developers might be
aware of studies I'm not familiar with.)

I find the question interesting, normally I would think of accessibility
in terms of programs, tools, and toolkits providing accessibility
features, rather than accessibility being an inherent quality of the film
format. How does a file format better serve accessibility beyond using
existing open standards and including good metadata? Maybe the question
could be better asked as: How can the metadata and structural markup in
Abiword be improved to better support accessibility needs?

I understand that an image format would need to support a lot of metadata
to help with accessiblity and a video format would need to support
subtitles and closed captions. If you know I'd be interested to read what
accessibility features you would expect a Word Processing file format to
include?

Regards

Alan H.
-----------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to
abiword-user-request@abisource.com with the word
unsubscribe in the message body.
Received on Sun Aug 7 23:07:13 2011