plan/plan_actf_07.xml

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<plan plan-format="1.0" xmlns="http://www.eclipse.org/project/plan" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="ACTF">
  <release projectid="technology.actf" version="0.7"/>
    <introduction>
    <html:div>
The Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) is an incubation phase project that is a subproject of the Eclipse Technology Project.<html:br/>
ACTF is a framework that serves as an extensible infrastructure upon which developers can build a variety of utilities that help to evaluate and enhance the accessibility of applications and content for people with disabilities. A collection of example utilities will also be provided which were created on top of the framework such as compliance validation tools, assistive technology simulation applications, usability visualization tools, unit-testing utilities, and alternative accessible interfaces for applications.
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  </introduction>
  <release_deliverables>
    <html:p>0.7 release includes visualization and infrastructure components from ACTF.</html:p>
  </release_deliverables>
  <release_milestones>
    <milestone date="1/12/2009" milestone="M4"><html:div>0.7 M4</html:div></milestone>
    <milestone date="2/16/2009" milestone="M5"><html:div>0.7 M5</html:div></milestone>
    <milestone date="3/23/2009" milestone="M6"><html:div>0.7 M6 </html:div></milestone>
    <milestone date="5/11/2009" milestone="M7"><html:div>0.7 M7 (Feature Freeze)</html:div></milestone>
    <milestone date="5/25/2009" milestone="RC1"><html:div>0.7 RC1</html:div></milestone>
    <milestone date="6/1/2009" milestone="RC2"><html:div>0.7 RC2</html:div></milestone>
    <milestone date="6/8/2009" milestone="RC3"><html:div>0.7 RC3</html:div></milestone>
    <milestone date="6/15/2009" milestone="RC4"><html:div>0.7 RC4</html:div></milestone>
    <postamble>
    <html:p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
     <h3 id="rampdown">Ramp Down</h3>
     For M7, we plan to be functionally complete. After RC1 is released, builds will be produced weekly until the release.
     In the RC phase only bugs marked P2 or higher or severity major or higher will be fixed. 
     APIs will not change except to address critical issues, until RC3, at which point APIs will be frozen. 
    </html:p>
    </postamble>
  </release_milestones>
  <target_environments>
   <html:p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <ul>
     <li>Operating Systems<br/>
	 <ul>
	  <li>Windows XP or above</li>
	 </ul>
     </li>
     <li>Software<br/>
	 <ul>
	  <li>Java&#8482; version 1.5 or above</li>
	  <li>Internet Explorer 6.0 or above</li>
	  <li>For Flash Accessibility mode:  Adobe Flash Player, Version 8 or above</li>
	  <li>For OpenDocument Accessibility mode:  OpenOffice.org 3.x (3.0.1 or above)</li>
  	 </ul>
	</li> 
    </ul>
   </html:p>
    <internationalization>
       <html:p>
          ACTF Visualization part has been designed with localization in mind and will keep internationalization in mind as we go forward. Now it supports English and Japanese.
        </html:p>
    </internationalization>
  </target_environments>
  <compatibility_with_previous_releases>
  <html:div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  The goal of this release is to be backward compatible back to ACTF 0.5.
  </html:div>
  </compatibility_with_previous_releases>  
  <themes_and_priorities>
    <preamble>
     <html:p>
ACTF Visualization part has been designed as building blocks for RCP applications. In this release, we will integrate these features into Eclipse platform. We will also improve the coverage of documentation.
     </html:p>
    </preamble>
    <theme name="Integration into Eclipse platform">
      <description>
        <html:p>By providing perspectives and actions, enable to use ACTF Visualization components, such as blind usability visualization, low-vision simulation, in Eclipse platform.
        </html:p>
      </description>
    </theme>
    <theme name="OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 support">
      <description>
        <html:p>ACTF currently use OpenOffice.org 2.x to open ODF documents in Eclipse environment. In next release, ACTF will support the latest OOo 3.0.1.
        </html:p>
      </description>
    </theme>
    <theme name="Documentation">
      <description>
         <html:p>Provide more documentation for both of developers and users.
         </html:p>
      </description>
    </theme>
    <theme name="Bug fixes">
      <description>
        <html:p>Fix bugs that found in 0.5 release as much as possible.
        </html:p>
      </description>
    </theme>
  </themes_and_priorities>
  <appendix/>
</plan>