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Re: Semantics for Indicating Accessible Version of Files
From: Moore, Michael
Date: Jan 28, 2009 8:10AM
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How about picture of document and document? <grin/>
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Semantics for Indicating Accessible Version of
Files
Short answer: management decision.
Longer answer: (1) original may have legal implications, (2) original
shows signature, (3) concern of whether text translation is 100%
accurate, etc.
-rp
-----Original Message-----
Randy Pearson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are working with a website that has myriad old PDF files that are
scanned
> PDF images, and obviously not accessible. Over time, we will be adding
> accessible alternatives, but also keeping the originals.
>
> Our question is, what is the proper semantic technique for indicating
that
> one of these files is the accessible version of the other? The site
pages
> currently list files in an HTML table, with one row per file (columns
for
> the hyperlinked file, file size, etc.). We can add the accessible file
in a
> new row right after the scanned file, but how should we indicate the
> relationship?
Why not simply replace the inaccessible version with the accessible one?
Or is there a significant difference between the two beyond the
accessibility work that was done on them?
P
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Patrick H. Lauke
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