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From: Steve Rindsberg
Date: Jul 12, 2001 3:10PM


Just a little nit: There's no such thing as Adobe 5. Adobe's the company,
Acrobat's the product, and on the Adobe forums, they call me The Village
Pedant, and now you know why.
At 01:42 PM 7/12/01 -0600, you wrote:
>If you have Adobe 5, you can download a make accessible tool that helps you
>create accessible PDF files. Unfortunately this only works with Acrobat 5.
>The files are then accessible to screen readers.
>
>More information can be found at http://www.webaim.org/howto/acrobat
>
>Good luck.
>
>Jeff
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lancaster, Lanne" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>To: "'WebAIM listserv'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 1:24 PM
>Subject: pdf files
>
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>> Has Adobe made their pdf files accessible (without that cumbersome plugin)
>> yet? Our school was thinking of putting some of the syllabi, etc in pdf
>> format but didn't want to endanger our hard-won Bobby badge. Has anyone
>had
>> any experience with screen readers and PDFs?
>>
>> Lanne Lancaster
>> Student Resources Coordinator
>> Community College of Aurora
>> 16000 E. CentreTech Parkway
>> Aurora, Colorado 80011-9036
>> 303-360-4784
>> <EMAIL REMOVED>
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Steve Rindsberg
President, RDP - a slide imaging service bureau
http://www.rdpslides.com
Developers of ZAP!
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