I've long urged more attention to accessibility issues and technology, especially for Foss. Indeed, the current logic of adding, post hoc, accessibility features, is wrong. It ought to be something done at the outset, as a basic principal upon which all other things are built. That's because "accessibility" really ought to be reconsidered as "universal design" or the design of things (not just technology) that can be used by all.
This is a crucial point. The billions coming to modern technology--telephone's and TV's and the (very hostile) typewriter's progeny--should not be forced into the shape conceived of at the end of the 19th century and designed more as a means of disciplining the young, healthy, body.
The ODF, as the chief open standard for documents, is leading the front here, and OOo, as the leading open source office suite, is profoundly important to the point.
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