Mass ITD Resolved Accessibility Issues, Adjusts ODF Rollout Details

Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Aug 23, 2006 11:17 PM EDT
ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove
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There's news from the Massachusetts ITD on the implementation plans for ODF and accessibility. But now all of the news reporting is on target. Here's what's right and wrong.

Massachusetts CIO Louis Gutierrez met with representatives of the community of the disabled last Friday to brief them on a letter that will be sent to community leaders today. It promises to use plugins in order to save documents in ODF form in order to alleviate accessibility concerns. The ITD has also now signed a long-awaited Memorandum of Understanding with the Massachusetts Office on Disability and the state's Department of Health and Human Service The ITD also signed a commitment with the Massachusetts Office on Disability and the state's Department of Health and Human Service to design, procure, certify and develop training for software that is accessible to people with disabilities, as well as to establish a unit devoted to accessible technology, expanding on its launch in May of an accessibility lab to a similar purpose.

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