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Re: Track Changes - Best Practices for showing document revisions in Word, PDF, and HTML?

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From: Jim Homme
Date: Jan 16, 2018 11:24AM

Hi,
This is just my opinion on the PDF question. I'm guessing that the PDF documents originally came from an MS Office program, like Word, for example. If I were doing this, I would mark up the documents using Track Changes in Word. Also, another opinion, based on some experience as a screen reader user, I have had the most success working with Track Changes in Word using NVDA. I have no useable sight. The way I generally work is I turn on Markup, and I'm pretty sure I use simple markup. I look at the changes to get a feel for what the person wants. Then I turn off all markup and make my changes, then turn it back on to pass back to the other collaborators. I endorse working with Office first, because I feel that as a totally blind person, I have much more control over the editorial process, whereas if I did it in Adobe, I would pretty much be useless.

Thanks.

Jim


Jim Homme