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From: House, Kate
Date: Sep 12, 2002 1:34PM

Thanks, Paul, for the info. Have you, or anyone else, heard of these new
accessible PDF Plexus forms that the IRS is using? The article below
explains what I'm talking about; interesting, but it doesn't explain the new
methodologies that Plexus has put in place.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13536-2002Aug29.html

Thanks!

Kate House
Prentice Hall
Online Services & Multimedia Development
p: 781.433.8406
f: 781.455.1718


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> From: Paul Bohman
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> Sent: Monday, September 9, 2002 7:38 PM
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> Subject: RE: Adobe Acrobat 5.0
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> That's great that you've decided to make your PDF documents more
> accessible.
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> If you haven't already done so, try these resources:
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> WebAIM article on PDF accessibility-
> http://www.webaim.org/howto/acrobat
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> Adobe PDF accessibility main page
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/solutionsacc.html
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> Adobe tutorial:
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_booklet.html
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> The short story is that the documents have to be created accessibly,
> with true headings (e.g. not just bold text), alt text for images, table
> headings, and so on. Tables need to be as simple as possible. Graphs,
> charts and other complex objects need to be explained in text. In other
> words, apply the same type of accessibility techniques to PDF as you
> would to HTML. And, the truth is, it's still a good idea to provide an
> HTML alternative in addition to the PDF file, giving the user the
> ability to choose between them.
>
> Paul Bohman
> Technology Coordinator
> WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind)
> www.webaim.org
> Center for Persons with Disabilities
> www.cpd.usu.edu
> Utah State University
> www.usu.edu
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