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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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)

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