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Re: PDF access (was Screen-reader updates)

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From: Joe Clark
Date: Mar 10, 2006 1:40PM

>My question is other than converting the document into plain HTML
>what other options are there?

Converting documents into semantic HTML with CSS.

>I ask this with a particular reason and that is from my limited
>experience, I only get asked to PDF documents and even PowerPoints
>for 1 simple reason to attempt to protect the authors content.

I don't know what that latter point means. You can produce tagged
PDFs from PowerPoint documents, albeit quite inelegantly, on Windows.
There's also the PowerPoint accessibility plug-in.

<http://www.google.com/search?q=powerpoint+accessibility>;

While this is all still crap in a lot of ways, it's less serious crap
than just publishing PowerPoints. When we get a PowerPoint-to-S5
converter, even with the latter's limitations, I shall be a happy man.

<http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/>;
<http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/12/19/presentation/>;


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