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ConsortiumInfo: Office Formats, Accessibility and Politics

Written By
AU
Andy Updegrove
Mar 8, 2006

“Today, interested Massachusetts legislators are being offered a
pre-release demonstration of the accessibility features of
Microsoft’s Office 2007. What I understand they will see will be a
subset of Windows features used in conjunction with a subset of
third party accessibility tools. But how much of the whole picture
will they see?

“As anyone who has followed the ODF saga for any amount of time
knows, certain issues of substance hang in the balance as the
outcome of this battle is determined in the halls of
government…”

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Andy Updegrove

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