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From: Ron Stewart
Date: Aug 9, 2011 4:00PM

I think at this point that we may be talking past each other. Please put my
comments in the context of an individual with a print related disability
using PDF content in a modern educational environment.

If you continue to purport that the current implementation of PDF/UA is
satisfactory from the position of persons with print related disabilities
then I think you are in fact being disingenuous. You admitted there were
shortcomings in our conversation at ATIA Chicago, but now you are saying
that that is not the case?

Yes I am talking about content reading order, what other reading order is
relevant to the effective consumption of PDF based content. This painting
the page analogy that you and others continue to use does nothing to resolve
the fundament issues related to effective consumption of complex PDF based
content. Secondly the issue of maintenance of proper document pagination is
ignored in your response. For those of us who actually prepare and deliver
fully accessible content these are not trivial issues, and to maintain that
they are is problematic as this conversation moves forward.

Ron Stewart