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From: Shawn Henry
Date: Jun 10, 2014 5:14AM

But Olaf, remember, even well tagged PDFs are not currently accessible to many people with low vision, dyslexia, and related conditions that impact reading. Info at <http://www.tader.info/>; & <http://www.tader.info/support.html#PDFisNOTaccessible>;

Providing accessible HTML as well as PDF seems like the right solution in this case. (And people who want to download, keep, and read the HTML files offline can just as easily do so. :-)


~Shawn

Shawn Henry <http://www.uiaccess.com/profile.html>;
NOTE: Information in www.uiaccess.com and www.tader.info websites and e-mails is from the individual Shawn, not associated with her employer.



On 6/10/2014 3:03 AM, Olaf Drümmer wrote:
> Hi Rabab,
>
> why can't you put some instruction with a link on it on the first
> page of the PDF documents?
>
> As an aside (and just guessing here): if you have accessible HTML
> versions of the content - shouldn't it be relatively straightforward
> to generate accessible PDFs from them? With PDFs it's so much easier
> to download and keep them, and read them even when offline.
>
> On 10 Jun 2014, at 00:46, Rabab Gomaa < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> We need to have a link on the brochure in PDF that goes to the HTML
>> without adding it in the brochure content so that for example, when
>> Google finds the PDF, the user gets this alert in order to go to
>> the accessible version.
>
>
> Olaf > subscription, visit http://list.webaim.org/ > <EMAIL REMOVED>
>
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