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From: D Hubbard
Date: Aug 9, 2011 7:21PM

Ron,

I've seen your name a few times and have wanted to ask you if you attended
Overbrook? Just curious.

Thanks,

-Diane Hubbard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Stewart" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF/A accessibility


>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
>
>