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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Dec 3, 2012 3:40PM

I certainly don't want to start obsessing over PDF or some such, but
it bothers me that the proposed directive does not seem to address, in
any way, the accessibility of documents (text or forms) available
through these websites.
Of course I'd prefer all forms in HTML, but the reality is that PDF is
used, to quite a large extent, for electronic forms/applications for
services or announcements, and various file formats are used for
longer text, ranging from Word documents to epub.
WCAG 2.0 actually has some excellent definitions for accessibility
that can be applied to pretty much any technology, but it is made for
the web, and when talking about websites being WCAG compliant, I
believe that does not indicate that any documents downloaded from such
websites need to be compliant with any accessibility standard.
Cheers
-B

On 12/3/12, Paul Bohman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> And here's a link that includes Annex 1: "Websites falling under the
> jurisdiction of the proposed EU Directive on accessibility of public sector
> bodies' websites" (at the bottom, below the main text of the press release
> and links):
>
> http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-12-1305_en.htm
>
> Paul Bohman, PhD
> Director of Training
> Deque Systems, Inc
> 703-646-0514, ext.121
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:24 AM, J. B-Vincent < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n293903
>> >> >> >>
> > > >