Helping to make legacy documents accessible Accessibility magic Helping to make legacy documents accessible

Who we are Fabiano Fidencio (Brazil) Student at Campinas University AbiWord, EFL Developer Freelance developer Rafael Fonseca Master student at Campinas University EFL Developer Michiel Leenaars (NL) Board member of OpenDoc Society Member of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 And: * Director of strategy NLnet * Director Internet Society Nederland * Policy advisor at NWO/NCF

OpenDoc Society Association which was launched on October 24th 2007 by minister of Foreign Trade Frank Heemskerk (EZ) and Patrick Durusau (editor ODF, chair V1-committee) Supported by over sixty companies, government bodies, associations, cultural and scientific institutions, foundations, open source projects Chair: Bert Bakker We have members all over the world Promote best practices for office productivity tools and everything that matters to them

What is the issue? If a blind person meets an image inside a document, he or she of course cannot see it This is why ODF (as of version 1.1) supports accessibility features. Document authors are encouraged to provide an image title and a description These provide a text alternative (much like the “alt” tag in HTML) that make documents understandable

But what about existing documents? Simple: You manually open each and every document You go to each of the images You enter the image title and description That is not practical if you have a million documents (like a government)

Enters our new tool Based on the excellent open source lpod library and Enlightenment Foundation Library Simple workflow: Extract all the images from large sets of documents sort the images on frequency pick the ones that matter most add the accessibility information Easy for users to work with, fast and scalable (rules can be exported and shared)

Roadmap First stabilise and then release Set up a (free) service to share the accessibility information Crowdsourcing accessibility