- From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lguarino@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 19:31:30 -0700
- To: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- cc: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, ryladog@earthlink.net, kshea@apollo.fedworld.gov, lguarino@Adobe.COM, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
I feel the PDF techniques belong in WCAG rather than ATAG because we are describing what should be true of the PDF file for it to be accessible. It should be possible to measure whether a PDF file satisfies the WCAG requirements, no matter what application was used to generate it. It may be stretching the parallel, but some HTML is generated by programs and some is hand edited, but we still describe what should be true about the resulting content. It is possible to fix some, but not all, of the properties described in these techniques using tools in Acrobat 5. For instance, an author could add Alt tags and fix errors in the logical structure. Loretta
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