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From: Geof Collis
Date: Feb 12, 2010 8:15AM

Hi Monir

Appreciate your feedback, while I wasn't really interested in pdf
accessibility from the design standpoint, it appears that I might not
be able to avoid it given the amount of inaccessible pdf's and our
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) coming into force.

cheers

Geof


At 08:19 AM 2/12/2010, you wrote:
>Just to clarify the importance of tagging- it is a necessary condition for
>accessibility (i.e. untagged documents are inaccessible as screen readers
>use the tags to navigate the structure of the document) but not a sufficient
>one (i.e. tagged documents can still be inaccessible if the tagging is not
>applied correctly -which is quite common- or if some of the other conditions
>for accessibility are not met).
>
>When you use the "Add Tags to Document" command in Acrobat, Acrobat will try
>to figure out how to structure the tagging for the document. It often
>succeeds with simple (linear text) documents but will typically require
>additional work to place the tags correctly for more "complex" documents.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Monir ElRayes
>President
>NetCentric Technologies
>
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