It’s new, scary, and they don’t like it. No. Seriously.
Apparently disabled people (or at least the folks that are paid to represent them) are just like everyone else. e.g. they start complaining long before actually looking at a product and will complain about any change. While it’s true that special needs need to be accounted for in a potential workplace software, the wording of MA’s law made acceptions for disability or necessary interoperability, which I think would cover the sight/hearing/etc impaired.
But c’mon.. “ODF angers disabled workers”. That headline is priceless. I can just see a blind office worker raising her fist against open and interoperable office standards, cursing the day they came into her life.
And just so the Herald can figure it out.. the ODF is far from “untested”. Comments like that make me think the editor needs a bit more “testing” of his/her own. Even aside from that, it’s a document format. There really isn’t a half works with a document format.
People are a little to used to having Microsoft rammed down their throats. They don’t even understand what a working group designed cumulative standard is. Or more importantly, how it differs from something a single company put together to hedge in a market.
BostonHerald.com - Business News: ODF angers disabled workers
