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RE: PDF access (was Screen-reader updates)

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Mar 1, 2006 12:20PM

> PDFs do have the advantage that if they
> are protected you can even prevent someone from printing
> them. So what I really would like to know is how do you
> achieve the same sort of security without using PDFs?

One should never use security as a reason for picking a particular
publicly accessible web resource.

Consider ANYTHING posted online to the public as insecure. If you need
it to truly be secure, you need to consider encryption (which will only
keep it secure in transit).

Most (all?) of the attempts at adding 'security' to web assets and
documents result in just annoying abled folks and seriously blocking
access to anyone that may not be fully abled.

-Darrel