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Re: accomodating repeated links (WAS Re: examples of acc essible sites )

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Sep 20, 2004 10:01AM

> is that an anti-M$ sentiment or is there an accessibility issue? I'm
> genuinely interested if it's an accessibility issue.

On a basic level, RTF is simply accessible to more types of word processing
and text viewing applications, so in terms of pure numbers, RTF will be more
accessible. In terms of usability, from my understanding, screen readers
like JAWs are designed to work directly with Word documents. Granted, it's
very easy to make a structurally sloppy Word file, so in some ways, the way
the document is structured is more important than the actual file type.

As a Mac user without MS Word installed, at least prior to the 10.3 update,
I found all Word documents rather inaccessible for me. ;o)

-Darrel