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RE: questions about accessible pdfs

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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Mar 1, 2004 7:01AM

This is really good to know! Many thanks Sachin.

Probably, inserting a title="PDF Document" in the <a> may help with at least
some of that but a PDF is a PDF and if a PDF is always difficult, the title
won't help with that but at least you are alerted to that.

I am going to make this change to my pages.

Sachin, is it better for you to work with an accessible PDF than an
inaccessible PDF (accessibility defined by the Acrobat Accessibility tool)?

Jules

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Julian Rickards
Digital Publications Distribution Coordinator
Publications Services Section
Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
Phone: (705) 670-5608
Fax: (705) 670-5690


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sachin Pavithran [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]

> Personally in my experience of using PDF's with JAWS even
> recently, there
> were times when it was really frustrating. especially when I
> didn't know it
> was a PDF file that was opening up. I wouldn't know what
> happened when I
> clicked the link and I've ended up closing the whole window.
> I would rather
> not even deal with PDF files, especially because navigating
> in it is also
> confusing and frustrating at times.


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