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From: House, Kate
Date: Thu, Sep 12 2002 1:34PM
Subject: RE: Adobe Acrobat 5.0
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Thanks, Paul, for the info. Have you, or anyone else, heard of these new
accessible PDF Plexus forms that the IRS is using? The article below
explains what I'm talking about; interesting, but it doesn't explain the new
methodologies that Plexus has put in place.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13536-2002Aug29.html

Thanks!

Kate House
Prentice Hall
Online Services & Multimedia Development
p: 781.433.8406
f: 781.455.1718


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> From: Paul Bohman
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> Sent: Monday, September 9, 2002 7:38 PM
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> Subject: RE: Adobe Acrobat 5.0
>
> That's great that you've decided to make your PDF documents more
> accessible.
>
> If you haven't already done so, try these resources:
>
> WebAIM article on PDF accessibility-
> http://www.webaim.org/howto/acrobat
>
> Adobe PDF accessibility main page
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/solutionsacc.html
>
> Adobe tutorial:
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_booklet.html
>
> The short story is that the documents have to be created accessibly,
> with true headings (e.g. not just bold text), alt text for images, table
> headings, and so on. Tables need to be as simple as possible. Graphs,
> charts and other complex objects need to be explained in text. In other
> words, apply the same type of accessibility techniques to PDF as you
> would to HTML. And, the truth is, it's still a good idea to provide an
> HTML alternative in addition to the PDF file, giving the user the
> ability to choose between them.
>
> Paul Bohman
> Technology Coordinator
> WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind)
> www.webaim.org
> Center for Persons with Disabilities
> www.cpd.usu.edu
> Utah State University
> www.usu.edu
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: House, Kate [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 7:45 AM
> To: ' = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = '
> Subject: Adobe Acrobat 5.0
>
>
> We are trying to make sure that going forward, any PDFs that we include
> in
> our apps are as accessible as humanly (and economically) possible. I
> know
> that Acrobat 5.0 is supposed to be a huge improvement over earlier
> versions
> in terms of accessibility, but when we are spec'ing out a work order for
> our
> vendors, are there any specifics of 5.0 that we should be highlighting?
> Should we just recommend using the "accessibility palette" in 5.0,
> including
> the "accessibility checker"? I know that you can double-check for alt
> tags
> and sizing of individual elements of a PDF, but what else?
>
> Many thanks for your time.
>
>
>
> Kate House
> Online Services & Multimedia Development
> Prentice Hall (Pearson Education)
> p: 781.433.8406
> f: 781.455.1718
>
>
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