- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:37:31 -0400 (EDT)
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> RE: Jakob Nielsen Column -- PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption Jakob Nielsen is hardly in a position to criticize PDF in this manner, given that he sells PDF reports that are presented in inaccessible formats. <http://contenu.nu/article.htm?id=1216> > 1. Many times images are used in the PDF to present textual content. This is > not rendered to the end user who is blind, and so we are missing that > information. This is not acceptable. You can add alternative text, actual text, and/or title to any figure in a tagged accessible PDF. I've done it myself (though not with logotypes). > 2. The order of reading is extremely important and is tremendously easier to fix in Acrobat 6. It was quite a bother in Acrobat 5. A well-authored document-- e.g., even a Word 2000 document using proper styles-- will present itself in nearly the exactly correct reading order on the first import into PDF most of the time. I've made multi-column accessible PDFs with no reading-order problems directly in InDesign, for example. > 3. Having the PDF page go through a translation is not necessary with tagged accessible PDF. But if anyone wants to use it, the Trace PDF converter is still up: <pdf2txt@sun.trace.wisc.edu>. -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org Author, _Building Accessible Websites_ <http://joeclark.org/access/> | <http://joeclark.org/book/>
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