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From: Steve Green
Date: Dec 10, 2022 9:46AM

I would be happy to take a look too, if you want to send it to me. Better still, send the source document so we can see the cause of any issues.

It's worth noting that there is more to PDF accessibility than screen reader behaviour. Hopefully the designers will have ensured the colour contrast is good, but very few pay attention to the reading order in Adobe Reader's Reflow view, which is intended for people who need a high level of magnification.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd


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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Lars Ballieu Christensen
Sent: 09 December 2022 18:10
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] question about PDF access

Hi Andrew

If you mail me the copy, we'll be happy to review it and make recommendations.

Venligst/Kind regards

Lars
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Lars Ballieu Christensen
Rådgiver/Adviser, Ph.D., M.Sc., Sensus ApS Specialister i tilgængelighed/Accessibility Consultants
Tel: +45 48 22 10 03 – Mobil: +45 40 32 68 23 - Skype: Ballieu
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Vi arbejder for et tilgængeligt og rummeligt informationssamfund Working for an accessible and inclusive information society



On 09/12/2022, 18.58, " <EMAIL REMOVED> on behalf of <EMAIL REMOVED> " < <EMAIL REMOVED> on behalf of <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

Hi there,

I'm a low-vision writer with a book about blindness coming out this summer
from a commercial press, and I want to make sure that all of the publicity
materials are accessible. I just got my first marketing PDF from my
publisher, and while I can read the text fine on Acrobat for Windows with
JAWS, it ignores the decorative images around the text, and when I look at
the PDF on my iphone with voiceover, it cuts off each line of the text and
generates auto alt text for the images. Can anyone help me figure out what
to say to my publisher to help ensure that all our materials are accessible?
They have a great design team who I think will be willing to adjust their
processes but even though I'm a screen-reader user I don't really know what
to tell them, as I'd like to say something more useful than "there is a
website called webaim that you should click on ;)"

Thanks much for any help anyone can offer!

All best,

Andrew

andrewleland.org