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From: Geof Collis
Date: Jan 21, 2010 5:24AM

Our City did that as matter of course, that is why I spent 5 years
going after them until they finally put up alternates on a regular basis.

cheers

Geof

At 02:36 AM 1/21/2010, you wrote:
>The only problem that I have had with PDF files is when documents are
>scanned in to the PDF file as images not using an OCR format. I have more
>issues with inaccessible Flash content such as what appears on many of the
>Internet survey sites where choices are presented as unlabeled graphics or
>drop down menus or check boxes are not labeled with text equivalents.
>Chuck
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Geof Collis" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:42 PM
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF Accessibility
>
>
> > Hi Chuck
> >
> > That's just it, our provinces passed the www.aoda.ca , the first
> > Standard became law Jan 1 of this year and the one covering websites
> > should be law sometime this year, hopefully.
> >
> > Right now they are looking at WCAG 2.0 level A as the benchmark, but
> > the Customer Care one allows me the option of getting documentation
> > from my Municipality in what ever format I want, guess what format I
> > wont be asking for. :O)
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Geof
> >
> >