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From: David Egbert
Date: Wed, Apr 03 2002 11:47AM
Subject: .pdf files and accessibility
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What do you think about Adobe's accessibility solutions for Acrobat (.pdf)
files?

They claim to be compatible with Freedom Scientific and GW Micro.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/solutionsacc.html

Is it being used? Comments? Critiques?

Thanks.

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Manager, Instructional Media Center
Brigham Young University
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From: Mark Rew
Date: Wed, Apr 03 2002 12:42PM
Subject: Re: .pdf files and accessibility
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Well, we are using Adobe 5.xx PDF files with mixed results. When the screen
reader user is running the accessible Adobe reader and the PDF has been made
accessible they work well with Jaws 4.0. But, many people who generate PDF
documents are not aware of accessibility or are not trained properly in how to
make PDF files accessible. So, our agency is having Adobe provide in-house
training on generating accessible documents and forms. I'm hoping this will
make it possible to provide all of our documents accessible for all disabled
users.

I will keep this list informed how well our efforts go with accessibility and
PDF.

Mark Rew

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Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 1:47 PM
Subject: .pdf files and accessibility


> What do you think about Adobe's accessibility solutions for Acrobat (.pdf)
> files?
>
> They claim to be compatible with Freedom Scientific and GW Micro.
>
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/solutionsacc.html
>
> Is it being used? Comments? Critiques?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> David Egbert
> Manager, Instructional Media Center
> Brigham Young University
> http://imc.byu.edu
>
>
> ----
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view list archives,
> visit http://www.webaim.org/discussion/
>
>


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From: Israel Pinto
Date: Wed, Apr 03 2002 5:26PM
Subject: RE: .pdf files and accessibility
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rew [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
>
> Well, we are using Adobe 5.xx PDF files with mixed results.
> When the screen
> reader user is running the accessible Adobe reader and the
> PDF has been made
> accessible they work well with Jaws 4.0. But, many people
> who generate PDF
> documents are not aware of accessibility or are not trained
> properly in how to
> make PDF files accessible. So, our agency is having Adobe
> provide in-house
> training on generating accessible documents and forms. I'm
> hoping this will
> make it possible to provide all of our documents accessible
> for all disabled
> users.
>
> I will keep this list informed how well our efforts go with
> accessibility and
> PDF.

Are Adobe 5.xx PDFs accessible to other AT besides the more recent versions
of JAWS and Window-Eyes? Even if the accessibility features of PDFs have
improved, isn't an alternate version (HTML?)of the information still
necessary to provide accessibility to the largest possible audience?

I've been able to create PDFs that test well with Micro-Eyes. However, I'm
beginning to think that the amount of time it took to "Make Accessible"
documents with complex layouts would be better spent in creating accessible
HTML versions of the PDFs.

Any thoughts/answers/information anyone can provide is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Israel Pinto
Advanced Performance Consulting Group
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