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From: Geof Collis
Date: Jan 21, 2010 5:39AM

Your guess is as good as mine

cheers

Geof

At 06:30 AM 1/21/2010, you wrote:
>This is what my work is, doing training on accessible digital documents
>including PDF and HTML. Do you have a contact so I can start the process?
>
>I've been looking for the criteria for an AODA compliant PDF all week and
>think that because accessibility is in its "infancy" here in Ontario that
>they must be as frustrated as you and I and others are.
>
>You can mail me off list.
>
>Cheers, Karen
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Geof Collis
>Sent: January-20-10 5:55 PM
>To: WebAIM Discussion List
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF Accessibility
>
>Hi All
>
>As an example of how much our Province even cares about pdf
>accessibility go
>to http://www.tcu.gov.on.ca/eng/eopg/tools/aoda.html and find the
>pdf document on Built Environment, it is worse than the one I went to
>yesterday and doesn't even perform the same way. The file was posted
>on November of last year, is part of the AODA legislation that this
>Government enacted.
>
>They have been made aware of this by one of our most vocal Advocacy
>groups the AODA Alliance and still they keep posting inaccessible
>pdf's with no alternate.
>
>So if anyone wants to educate them then please go ahead and let me
>know how it goes. :O)
>
>cheers
>
>Geof
>