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From: Andrews, David B B (DEED)
Date: Jan 28, 2011 8:03AM


At the risk of seeming stupid -- what is the Commonlook tool? Is this something in Acrobat Pro, or something else?

Dave



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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Monir ElRayes
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:54 PM
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF and Run Together Text

The CommonLook tool automatically detects (and corrects) "text running
together" problems.

Monir ElRayes
President
NetCentric Technologies

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Duff Johnson
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:33 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF and Run Together Text

On Jan 27, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Andrews, David B B (DEED) wrote:

> I have a PDF that visually looks correct, I am told. The Master was done
in Quark Express, and a PDF exported. Accessibility elements, (alt-text)
etc. was done in Acrobat, reading order, tables etc. Everything is fine
except that in speech and Braille some of the words in regular text portions
are run together without spaces. I have seen this before, many times and
don't know the cause, or solution.

This is difficult to evaluate without seeing the file itself. Feel free to
send it to me directly for review.

Absent that, my first thought is: "Quark? Oh no!" Tagged PDF from a Quark
source can be very tough - opening in InDesign and converting to PDF from
there generally produces better results (from an accessibility point of
view).

The problem: there are about 35 ways in which authoring applications can
create text on a PDF page, and not all of them are conducive to
accessibility.

Duff Johnson
Appligent Document Solutions
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