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From: Mark Rew
Date: Jun 7, 2002 9:55AM

Hi Steffi,

As a totally blind person, I find a printed version of any type of form
unaccessible. PDF forms are mostly accessible if they are designed with the
make accessible tool, and are marked up properly. I would encourage either
investing time, money, and effort into making the PDF accessible, or
generating html 4.01 without frames compliant forms.

Mark Rew
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From: "Steffi Rausch" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:47 AM
Subject: pdf forms for print or html forms for web use?


> Does anyone know if I a printable version of a pdf form is enough for
> accessibility purposes? Maybe it is a stupid question but I have a state
> site that needs to make their site accessible which I assume would mean all
> their forms as well - which is a lot. So in my price quote I need to
> incorporate this if needed and it will be a lot of money that I have verify
> reasons for. How do accessible people deal with printed forms? Do they have
> someone else fill it out? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Steffi Rausch
> RESI, Jr. Web Developer
> 410-704-2063
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> "Design is intelligence made visible." - Rick Eiber
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