eWeek: ODF: The Better, More Affordable Office Standard

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"I know that Brian Charlson is sincere about his desire to make sure that access is maintained to office documents for people with disabilities. He has a long track record of supporting accessible computer technology.

"However, when he said, 'The blindness community wants to make sure it's not against ODF [OpenDocument format]. We're against implementation without a guarantee that we won't lose the [few] jobs we have' at the Open Forum on the Future of Electronic Data Formats for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I think it's too easy to take this the wrong way..."

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