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Re: PDF, Accessibility and Quality Control

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From: John Foliot - Stanford Online Accessibility Program
Date: Jan 29, 2007 6:20PM

Zwack, Melanie C wrote:
>
> * Another question I have, You speak of well-formed documents.
> What exactly do you mean by that. I guess I'm not totally clear about
> what the meaning of a well-formed document is?

Melanie,

While your question focuses on PDFs, the same requirement exists for web
documents: i.e. they need to be "well-formed" as well. A very good article
that explains this concept may be found at A List Apart:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/grokwebstandards

While it speaks of "web standards", the section about "Think Like a Writer"
pretty much sums it up.

HTH

JF