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Re: creation of Accessible PDF documents

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From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Sep 22, 2011 8:30AM

Andrew wrote:

> Why "especially not Adobe Acrobat"? Trying to add extra challenges to the task by not allowing the most capable general-purpose tool for working with PDF documents? :)

Well, for one thing, it's not free. It seems counterproductive to
the movement of having everything online be accessible if we
reserve creating accessible documents to that group of people who
can afford commercial software.

-Deborah