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Re: How is PDF accessibility evaluated?

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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Feb 9, 2015 3:34PM

The idea in PDF is that anything that is presentational only or goes back to a mechanical process (like pagination or even hyphenation), and is not inherently semantic (i.e. carrying some meaning as intended by the content's author), is an artifact. Besides referring to the process of pagination, PDF 1.7 also speaks of " • Purely cosmetic typographical or design elements" - which are also artifacts.

Olaf



On 9 Feb 2015, at 22:42, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> The real content of a document comprises objects representing material originally introduced by the document’s author.
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> So would that make it inappropriate to artifact purely decorative document content supplied by the author?
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> Jonathan
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>> On Feb 9, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Olaf Drümmer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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>> • The real content of a document comprises objects representing material originally introduced by the document’s author.
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