- From: Richards, Jan <jrichards@ocad.ca>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:24:14 -0400
- To: Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>
- CC: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi Jonathon, Here is the link (sorry about that): http://adod.idrc.ocad.ca/node/1 Cheers, Jan -- (Mr) Jan Richards, M.Sc. jrichards@ocad.ca | 416-977-6000 ext. 3957 | fax: 416-977-9844 Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) | http://inclusivedesign.ca/ Faculty of Design | OCAD University > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Avila [mailto:jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com] > Sent: October 8, 2010 5:25 PM > To: Richards, Jan > Subject: RE: Opportunity to review accessible office document accessibility > guidance and techniques > > Can you please send a link to the standards. Thanks > > -----Original Message----- > From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On > Behalf Of Richards, Jan > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 11:14 AM > To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org > Cc: Treviranus, Jutta (Academic) > Subject: Opportunity to review accessible office document accessibility > guidance and techniques > > Good day, > > Occasionally, the topic of office document accessibility comes up on this > list, so I thought perhaps some people on this list might be interested in > a public review that we are holding. > > The Inclusive Design Research Centre (in partnership with UNESCO and the > Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services) invites you to review > and comment on "Accessible Digital Office Documents (ADOD)" Guidance. > > Please send comments to adod-comments@idrc.ocad.ca by 22 October 2010. > (Sorry for the early deadline - a result of the tight project schedule) > > We are especially interested in factual errors or omissions in the "ADOD > Techniques for producing accessible office documents". > > More Background: > ================ > > While information about how to create accessible office documents does > currently exist on a range of web sites, the information is often > incomplete, vendor-biased or is specific to a single office application. > Governments, public sector organizations, service organization and > entities globally, wishing to comply to accessibility requirements, have > expressed the need for centralized guidelines for creating accessible > office documents. > > Leveraging the W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and > Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 1.0, ADOD defines a > harmonized framework for determining the accessibility of office > documents, office document formats and office applications. In addition, > and perhaps more importantly, ADOD includes a set of practical, > application-specific but vendor-neutral instructions on how to author > accessible documents in common document formats and document authoring > tools. > > Cheers, > Jan > > -- > (Mr) Jan Richards, M.Sc. > jrichards@ocad.ca | 416-977-6000 ext. 3957 | fax: 416-977-9844 > Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) | http://inclusivedesign.ca/ > Faculty of Design | OCAD University
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