On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 12:24:50 PM -0400, David Poehlman (david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >To: gui-talk@xxxxxxxxxx > >From: David Andrews dandrews@xxxxxxxx > This is an interesting article below, and probably will avoid a > potential showdown. > > There is something called ODF Open Document Format, an open > standard that some are adopting. Massachusetts plans on doing so, > but some people in the disability advocacy field, while they might > support the goals of ODF, had concerns that much of the software > that used files in this format was partially or completely > inaccessible. Some background on this is in this article of mine (written last february, some things have (luckily) changed since then): http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/03/13/1628249.shtml?tid=150 Earlier, I had also written a general, absolutely non technical introduction to OpenDocument at www.linuxjournal.com/article/8616 Hope this helps, Marco Fioretti _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list