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Re: Are PDF portfolios accessible to screen readers?

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From: Iza Bartosiewicz
Date: Jul 2, 2010 1:12AM

Thanks Karen and Andrew for clarifying this.
I'm going to recommend that we avoid using portfolios until their accessibility is improved.

Andrew, I hope you'll tweet the good news when it happens! :)

cheers
Iza
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>>> On 02/07/10 at 0:01, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> There is a preference, as Karen mentions, in the Acrobat and Reader
> preferences (accessibility category, under "other accessibility options").
> The option is labeled "Always show portfolios in platform control".
>
> One of the items we discussed at CSUN is work to make portfolios accessible
> without this fallback preference being required, so we plan to have a much
> easier approach in a future release.
>
> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
> Adobe Systems
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> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> http://twitter.com/awkawk
> http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility
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