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From: Athol Gow
Date: Jul 12, 2005 2:52PM

Hi Everyone,
I'm part of a group that is looking into the accessibility of web-based
documents at my institution and I'm trying to familiarize people with
some of accessibility issues that are raised by using PDF files. I was
wondering if anyone is aware of any screen reading programs that won't
work with PDFs created in/read in Adobe Acrobat/Reader Version 7 (and
by won't work, I mean cannot open and a read a PDF period - I'm not
referring to the issue of improperly converted documents.). Also, for
programs like Jaws or Window Eyes, would it be safe to assume that some
earlier versions of these programs will not be able to open PDFs
created and read in Adobe Acrobat/Reader v. 7 despite the continuing
accessibility improvements to this document format? If so, does anyone
know the version numbers before which there is no PDF functionality?
Thanks very much (and sorry if anyone has already encountered these
questions on the EASI listserv),
Athol Gow