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From: Langum, Michael J
Date: Jan 5, 2011 8:54AM

Duff,

I thought this was an excellent and insightful article.

In the article, you mentioned that there was no data comparing the costs of remediation (e.g. adding tags, and applying structural tags), to reformatting (e.g. into HTML).

You also questioned the cost of providing accessibility before and after training authors on the need and methods for adding structure and other elements to documents would also be very valuable.

Are you aware of any good studies that make such comparisons. It seems like that would be a good topic for some doctoral student, or Adobe (since they own both Acrobat and Dreamweaver).

-- Mike


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My analysis of the recent Australian government report on PDF accessibility:

http://www.appligent.com/talkingpdf-AGIMO-Report-Assessment

Duff Johnson, CEO
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On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Webb, KerryA wrote:

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> The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has released its long-awaited report on the Accessibility of PDF documents.
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> http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/pdf-accessibility-study/index.h
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