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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Jun 10, 2014 6:05AM

But Shawn, remember, I did not even claim the HTML is not a good solution, and also I was not the one bringing PDF up in the first place. ;-) And in rephrasing your statement, I'd say "Providing accessible HTML as well as **accessible** PDF seems like the best solution in many cases." And starting from accessible PDF one can in principle relatively easily generate well tagged, accessible PDF.

Will you be attend ICCHP 2014 in Paris in July? We could have a little fight there… ;-) Meanwhile I will insist that there is no real one size fits all approach, and tagged PDF does have value for some people with and without disabilities where HTML falls short.

Olaf

On 10 Jun 2014, at 13:14, Shawn Henry < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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>;
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> 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. :-)