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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Sep 20, 2004 9:29AM

> I'd use:
>
> title of form 1: MS Word, title of form 1: Adobe
> PDF

I like that option because of its simplicity, but it tends to make a rather
muddy page for those using fully visual browsers. It becomes much harder to
quickly scan the list looking for the specific file format you want
(especially if we add more file formats).

> Well, almost: Better to use .rtf instead of MS Word.doc format

Well, it'd be best if we didn't have these paper forms anymore, but that's a
few decades away. ;o)

As for Word, from an accessibility course I took last year, taught by those
with visual sight impairments, I was shown that often Excel and MS Word can
be much more accessible than PDF, as products like JAWS are tailored
specifically for these applications. Of course, WORD is complately
inaccessible if you don't have Word (for the most part) so no argument there
than adding additional file formats isn't a bad thing.

-Darrel