Why are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published in PDF format? from James Salsman on 1999-09-08 (wai-wcag-editor@w3.org from July to September 1999)

From: James Salsman <jsalsman@cisco.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 14:36:58 -0700
To: wai-wcag-editors@w3.org
Message-Id: <4.1.19990908142716.01de1360@thyme.cisco.com>

Why are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
published in the very non-accessible PDF format?

Isn't that defeating the purpose?  Please take the 
opportunity to reduce the cognitive dissonance by 
pointing out the inaccessibility for PDF format.

Please see http://access.adobe.com for more info 
about what one must go through for PDF accessibility.  
I tried to get them to send their Solaris 
executable-only converter program, and they made me 
sign (and FAX!) a long contract and it took them 
several weeks to send it.

Cheers,
James Salsman
HTML Forms Working Group, W3C
Cisco Systems

Received on Wednesday, 8 September 1999 17:37:02 UTC