- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:51:41 +0200
- To: Nils Ulltveit-Moe <nils@u-moe.no>
- Cc: public-wai-ert@w3.org
Hi Nils and All, At 23:37 23/04/2005, Nils Ulltveit-Moe wrote: >Hi Shadi, > >This page shows a bit about accessibility and PDF: >http://www.webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/ > >Pointing into formats like Flash or PDF is not easy to achieve in a >general way, since the underlying format is unknown, proprietary and in >some cases binary. The formats act more like programming languages than >a traditional document format. The specification of Adobe PDF is proprietary but available at http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_reference.html. The PDF 1.5 spec is a "mere" 1149 pages long; I haven't checked the current version (1.6). The specification for Macromedia Flash (or should I now way Adobe Flash?) can be downloaded when you agree to a license agreement (at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/licensing/fileformat/license2.html) that says you can "use the Specification for the sole purposes of developing Products that output SWF" (i.e. not for developing products that check for accessibility problems??). An ActionScript Language Reference can be downloaded from http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash/, but I think this is less useful for our purposes. Regards, Christophe Strobbe >(...) -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/
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