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From: Jan Heck
Date: Oct 21, 2011 7:27PM

I'm doing some volunteer work for my old college. It seems most of the forms
they've added to the site since I retired are PDF forms, such as:

> http://www.coastline.edu/files/VerificationOfEnrollmentForm(Web).pdf (can be
> filled in online, but not submitted online)
> Or
> http://www.coastline.edu/files/Statement%20of%20Residence%208-06.pdf
> (apparently just to be printed out and filled in by hand)

The kinds of forms I created way back when are HTML forms like this one:

> http://www.coastline.edu/departments/international/forms/ss_intlstu_transfer_i
> ntent.htm (can be filled in online, but not submitted online)

One department has asked me to make sure that their forms are accessible.
Can somebody with a screenreader give me a quick comparison of the relative
accessibility of the two types of PDF forms listed above versus the HTML
form? It would be much appreciated. I no longer have access to all my tools
since retiring and I am a little rusty. ;-)

Thanks very much,
Jan Heck