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Re: Accessibility, Flash and wmode

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From: julian.rickards
Date: Aug 3, 2004 7:14AM

That's correct, an image of a document is not live text and therefore,
absolutely inaccessible. However, if you are suggesting that the document
also has been OCR'd, that will improve the situation but OCRing has its own
errors and may create problems with "typos" or content out of order.


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Publication Services Section,
Ministry of Northern Development and Mines,
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