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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jul 8, 2013 10:53AM

Last week was obviously a great week to have been on vacation... :)

I do take exception to a couple of minor things in the thread, but mostly the statement "Accessibility of PDF has largely focused on screen reader access for users who are blind" which is just not true. The Acrobat and Reader teams have worked to provide features for blind users, true, but also features to support low vision users (not as many as some would like, as stated) such as the zooming and reflow support and support for different high-contrast modes, support for keyboard-only users, and support for various OS-level conventions that users with different disabilities rely on. Also, it is important to recognize that what we're talking about now is not PDF but PDF viewers.

As always, I'm happy to discuss issues and ideas that people have to improve their experience with PDF. (BTW, Shawn, you should fix my email address on your site - please use the official feedback form http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/feedback.html which goes to me and my team).

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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