Open Doc Format and the accessibility gap

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> 
>> I have to say that I have never given accessibility much thoughts in
>> the past.  but after reading the recent posts from Henrik and the blog
>> by Jerome, I'm starting to think that we as a community (and I at a
>> personal level)  have to get more involved in that direction because
>> it is a very important issue. I know there is an accessibility team,
>> but I can't say I have heard a lot from it in the past (but I just
>> noticed various wiki pages so some work must have been done).  
> 
> Some testing and brainstorming has been done, but not much coding. The 
> notable exception is Luke's Live CD derivative.
> 

I've not heard of this - can you give some more details, and a link to a 
download?

>> I hate
>> to suggest it since there are already way too many mailing lists, but
>> shouldn't an ubuntu-accessibility mailing list be created as a way to
>> focus future discussions in a central location?  
> 
> I think that would be great yes. I've had a lot of private or group 
> emails going around on this topic that could easily have gone on a 
> public mailing list as it would be of general interest.
> 
> Jeff? :)
> 
> - Henrik
> 

+1 for a new mailing list. I know there are already many lists, but this 
is too central a matter for Ubuntu (and computer use in general) to have 
it dispersed over multiple forums.

John