- From: Greg Gay <g.gay@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:30:29 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
A client of ours has asked about the need to provide a W3C format (html) for documents available for download in rtf format, included as an accessible alternative to PDF files. Neither we nor the client can justify including a HTML versions of the rtf documents, since with an appropriate wordprocessor, rtf files have been accessible to all the assistive technology we've attempted to access them with. What justification is there for requiring html equivalents for rtf documents? (P2 WCAG 1.0 guideline 11.1) Which "one or more groups will find it difficult to access information in the document?" All current operating systems come standard with a rtf capable wordprocessor, and for older OSs, rtf capable word processors are readily available. -- Greg Gay Web Projects & Instructional Design Centre for Academic and Adaptive Technology University of Toronto 416 978-4043 ICQ 9020587
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