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From: Eoin Campbell
Date: Sat, Aug 07 2004 4:42AM
Subject: Re: Searching for "Creating Accessible PDFs...
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Hi Julian,
Many thanks for these great guides.
I have put links to them on our website at
www.xmlw.ie/aboutaccessibility/resources.htm
where I am collecting resources on PDF accessibility.
If anyone knows of resources on configuring and using Adobe InDesign
to create accessible PDFs, can you let me know?
At 09:00 07/08/2004, you wrote:
>From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>
>I just noticed that I had made significant modifications to the document and
>split it into two documents. You can find the Guide to Authors of Accessible
>PDFs document (for people who compose the document) at
>http://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/mndm/mines/ims/pub/downloads/AuthorsGuideAccessiblePDFs.zip and the Guide to Editors of Accessible PDFs document (for the
>people who take the documents and make the PDFs from them) at
>http://www.mndm.gov.on.ca/mndm/mines/ims/pub/downloads/EditorsGuideAccessiblePDFs.zip .
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From: Laura Carlson
Date: Sun, Aug 08 2004 4:43AM
Subject: Re: Searching for "Creating Accessible PDFs...
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> I have put links to them on our website at
> www.xmlw.ie/aboutaccessibility/resources.htm
> where I am collecting resources on PDF accessibility.
I have some PDF resources listed at:
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/accessibility#plugins
Laura
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Laura L. Carlson
Information Technology Systems and Services
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, MN 55812-3009
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/
From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Mon, Aug 09 2004 7:17AM
Subject: Re: Searching for "Creating Accessible PDFs...
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Hello Laura,
Perhaps you might like to include a link to
tools from Deque Systems that can convert any PDF into XML or
accessible HTML:
Deque-unDoc: converts PDF to XML or HTML
Deque-Ramp Ascend: checks for accessibility
violations and remediates them.
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The URL is
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href="http://www.deque.com/index_products.html">http://www.deque.com/index_products.html
Thanks,
Sailesh PanchangSenior Accessibility
Engineer Deque Systems,11180 Sunrise Valley Drive, 4th Floor,
Reston VA 20191Tel: 703-225-0380 Extension 105 E-mail: <A
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From: julian.rickards
Date: Tue, Aug 10 2004 6:45AM
Subject: Re: Searching for "Creating Accessible PDFs...
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I cannot guarantee that these guides will be available for much longer
because my employer, the Ontario government, may not want this type of
information posted on the web site.
Sandra Clark ( = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ) has offered to host these PDFs on her site
- I suggest that you point your web page to her site rather than "mine".
Jules
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Julian Rickards
A/Digitial Publications Distribution Coordinator
Publication Services Section,
Ministry of Northern Development and Mines,
Vox: 705-670-5608 / Fax: 705-670-5960
From: Sandy Clark
Date: Tue, Aug 10 2004 7:19AM
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You can find them on my site at
http://www.shayna.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.articles
Sandra Clark
http://www.shayna.com/blog
From: julian.rickards
Date: Tue, Aug 10 2004 7:24AM
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Thanks for posting those Sandra. However, might it be beneficial to indicate
that the downloads are in zip format?
Jules
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Julian Rickards
A/Digitial Publications Distribution Coordinator
Publication Services Section,
Ministry of Northern Development and Mines,
Vox: 705-670-5608 / Fax: 705-670-5960
From: Sandy Clark
Date: Tue, Aug 10 2004 11:01PM
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I'll do that Julian. Probably won't happen til Thursday when I return home,
but I will do that.
Sandy
From: Joe Clark
Date: Wed, Aug 11 2004 12:05PM
Subject: Re: Searching for "Creating Accessible PDFs...
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Boy, this list is hard to read and use. Is WebAIM aware of how many
RFCs and standards its digests violate?
>I have put links to them on our website at
>www.xmlw.ie/aboutaccessibility/resources.htm where I am collecting
>resources on PDF accessibility.
Excellent.
>If anyone knows of resources on configuring and using Adobe InDesign
>to create accessible PDFs, can you let me know?
There's nothing to it. You enable eBook tags on PDF export. It
happens automagically.
You can expect high-quality results if you have well-threaded text
and graphics blocks. Not every layout lends itself to that kind of
threading (e.g., some magazine layouts), and I don't know a way to
add alt texts to graphics inside InDesign. In some cases, you'll need
a wee bit of cleanup in Acrobat. In unusual cases, you'll need
superhuman levels of cleanup.
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