1. AccessODF:Accessibility Evaluation andRepair for LibreOffice /OpenOffice.org WriterChristophe Strobbe, Bert Frees,Jan EngelenK.U.Leuven, Belgium ICCHP, Linz, Austria, 10 July 2012

2. Before AccessODF ...odt2daisyExport DAISY books from Writerhttp://odt2daisy.sf.net/odt2brailleExport Braille or emboss from Writerhttp://odt2braille.sf.net/Techniques for accessible authoringAccessible Digital Office Document (ADOD)http://adod.idrc.ocad.ca/ICCHP, Linz, Austria, 10 July 2012 3. AccessODF ObjectivesQuality of DAISY & Braille output depends on accessibility of source Users asked for accessibility checkerHelp users evaluate and repair accessibility issues in Writerfor ODT (and DOC & DOCX)for ODT as source for DAISY & Braillefor ODT as source for PDF ICCHP, Linz, Austria, 10 July 2012 4. Other Accessibility Evaluation ToolsAccessibility Checker in MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint 2010Only for DOCX, XSLX, PPTX from MS Office 2010aDesigner (IBM, Eclipse Foundation)Plug-ins for accessible PDF documents from Zurich Univ of Applied Sciences(Validate function in Save-as-DAISY plug-in forMS Word)ICCHP, Linz, Austria, 10 July 2012 5. AccessODF StatusFirst version released 8 November 2011Identifies 30+ errors and warnings:image / formula / object without text alternativeno default language for the documentspan of text / hyperlink without languageidentificationtable created with tabs / spacestext & background have low contrastICCHP, Linz, Austria, 10 July 2012 6. AccessODF StatusDAISY-specific checksImage format not supported by DAISY (only PNGand JPG)More than 6 levels of headingsBraille-specific checksTable or image caption cannot be linkedMaterial is transposed from its original location. (Lists, text boxes and images inside a table.) ICCHP, Linz, Austria, 10 July 2012 7. AccessODF, WCAG and ADODMapping between AccessODF checks, WCAG 2.0 and ADOD techniques: http://accessodf.sourceforge.net/MappingToWCAG.html Some WCAG requirements are not relevant to word processing documents Some WCAG requirements are not evaluated (yet) Some checks dont match anything in WCAG ICCHP, Linz, Austria, 10 July 2012 8. Support for Accessibility RepairNot just errors and warnings:Repair button: active when (semi-)automatic repair is possible, e.g.empty heading: automaticmissing alt text: semi-automaticICCHP, Linz, Austria, 10 July 2012 9. AccessODF DemonstrationICCHP, Linz, Austria, 10 July 2012 10. AccessODF Wish ListAccessibility evaluation in Impress (presentations)Test effect of floating objects and frames onreading orderFind incorrect language identificationsSupport for abbreviated formsMore translations: please volunteer ;-) ICCHP, Linz, Austria, 10 July 2012 11. Where to Go...AccessODF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/accesso dfOr through LibreOffice extensions repositoryIn English, Dutch, Greek, FrenchUse the software, submit bugs, use our forumICCHP, Linz, Austria, 10 July 2012 12. LibreOffice Accessibility - WindowsJava Accessibility API: poor support in Windowsscreen readersIn 2010 IBM donated IAccessible2 implementationto Oracle; integration not complete whenOracle abandoned OpenOffice.orgOracle donated OOo 3.3 to Apache FoundationIAccessible2 would be integrated inOpenOffice.org after version 3.4.0 (ApacheFoundation)ICCHP, Linz, Austria, 10 July 2012