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Re: Accessibility of Tagged Acrobat PDFs

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Aug 14, 2003 11:25AM



On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:

> Jon,
> You mean for people who are visually impaired but not blind who want to turn
> images off to get access to the text equivalent for images, yes?

Right

>
> Acrobat Reader 5 and Adobe Reader 6 have some nice features for scaling
> text. Both players allow the text to reflow like HTML can so when you set
> the zoom to 300%, the text can still be on screen. The readers also allow
> users to set text color and background preferences.
>
> For use with screen readers, PDF does very well, but some of the limitations
> of MSAA are problems for PDF (e.g. You can tag a pdf with headers like n an
> html document, but they are not passed through to the screen reader by
> MSAA). This is also a problem with Flash.
>
> I agree with the idea that having an alternative to the PDF is the way to
> go...
>
> AWK
>
> On 8/14/03 11:04 AM, "Jon Gunderson" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > Gerard,
> >
> > Adobe PDF can be more accessible through the use of tagged text and other
> > techniques. One of the limitations is for people with visual imapriments
> > being able to change font families and have access to text equivalents for
> > graphic objects.
> >
> > In general it is best to have a alternative to the PDF that uses an
> > alternative format to fill in the accessibility gaps of PDF.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Gerard Corboz wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to know if anyone has experience with trying to make Acrobat
> >> PDF documents and forms accessible.
> >>
> >> What I'm interested in finding out is if whether or not Adobe's claims that
> >> Acrobat is accessible are accurate or just marketing fluff.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Gerard Corboz
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