Excellent News on the ODF and Open Source Fronts
Yesterday when I read Peter Korn’s announcement that OpenDocument v1.1 is now an OASIS standard, I almost whipped out a quick entry. Now I’m glad I waited because there’s even more good news thanks to the accessibility guys at OpenOffice.org: Version 2.2 for Linux/UNIX, currently in development, now exposes tons of text attributes to assistive technologies, which means screen readers such as Orca can now provide those details to the user. And that, of course, means that users who are blind can identify exactly how the text in their documents is formatted and be confident that what they have produced looks the way they intended. Thanks guys!!!