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Re: Series of PDF/UA video tutorials

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From: Kelly Lupo
Date: Mar 22, 2016 3:09PM

Thank you very much for making them - and for allowing us to share!

I completely understand length & not wanting to cause confusion - I think I
tend to be a Curious Georgette. :)

Kelly

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Jon Metz < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Olaf, Thank you so much for providing the technical background for why
> PDF/A was omitted.
>
> Kelly,the primary reason why I did not go into it was because it was out
> of scope for the tutorials. There's a number of things I was planning on
> doing for the tutorial, but realized that including all the things would
> have made them much longer and taken an already confusing subject and made
> it way worse! However, I intend to cover those in the future, such as OCR,
> dealing with acronyms, tables, etc. Eventually I'll get to them, but for
> now I hope the videos provide a decent foundation for things.
>
> However, the next video (which still remains to be cut and finished)
> covers how to actually test for accessibility for these PDFs. I have a
> feeling this is going to be ore popular than these other videos as it will
> answer a lot of questions for people!
>
> Thanks so much for all the feedback. I really appreciate it. As far as
> using the videos, they're all in the Creative Commons with attribution, so
> feel free to use them as much as you want. Also, the materials I used
> should technically be in the public domain because of where I found them.
> Feel free to reach out to me with any questions/concerns/suggestions, etc.
>
> Thanks!
> Jon
>
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> On 3/22/16, 10:50 AM, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of Kelly Lupo" <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> on behalf of <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> >Thank you again! The more I learn, the more I realize how much I still
> >need to learn. :)
> >
> >Kelly
> >
> >On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Olaf Drümmer < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Kelly,
> >>
> >> > On 22.03.2016, at 18:33, Kelly Lupo < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Was there an accessibility reason to disallow transparent effects at
> the
> >> > time, or was it purely technical (IE: difficulty in tagging objects
> >> > appropriately), and advances have made this possible under PDF/A-2?
> >>
> >> the development of PDF/A-1 happened during 2002 - 2004 (with publication
> >> in 2005). At that time, transparency effects (introduced in 2001) were
> >> still relatively new, and not all (or even the majority of) tools
> supported
> >> transparency well (not to mention the trend that tools and systems are
> only
> >> updated every 3, 4, 5 or even more years…) - thus transparency still
> felt
> >> a bit scary to people who have a focus on predictability /
> repeatability /
> >> interoperability when it comes to rendering (on screen or in the form
> of a
> >> printout). As a consequence it was decided to not allow transparency
> for
> >> the time being. Meanwhile, PDF technology has matured quite a bit across
> >> the board, and in 2011 it seemed safe to allow transparency.
> >>
> >> The decision to disallow transparency in PDF/A-1 had nothing to do with
> >> (support for) tagging.
> >>
> >> Olaf
> >>
> >> > >> > >> > >> > >>
> >> >> >> >>
> > > > >