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From: Ramshif Richu
Date: Sep 27, 2019 8:15AM

Thanks. As a tester I felt as I should know if there are any limitations to
PDF Accessibility and was curious. Hoping that the technology that we have
right now will solve all the issues related to PDF Accessibility. I
appreciate your time and effort. Thanks again

On Fri, 27 Sep 2019, 7:41 pm , < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> R. Richu wrote: " I assume there would be certain things which we shouldn't
> test or avoid when testing PDF Accessibility, "
>
> I don't understand why anyone would assume that!
> Why would you think there's something that should be avoided or not tested
> in any format...HTML, PDF, EPUB, Word?
>
> The concept of accessibility is that the entire file is fully accessible to
> everyone, regardless of which technology they use or whether they have a
> disability or not.
>
> Again, read the resources in the previous post.
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