- From: Chris O'Kennon <chris@vipnet.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:34:47 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Although this question doesn't apply directly to working on the guidelines, I thought this would be the best group to brainstorm with, as I hope to avoid the entire state of Virginia creating a system that doesn't work... New legislation requires state agencies to post their meeting minutes online. It has been decided that, in order to make these minutes available to the maximum amount of citizens and to preserve formatting, that PDF is the format to use. It's been my experience that PDFs are still a ways off from being accessible, although they have a conversion feature that will turn the PDF into a text document. But in that case the formatting is again lost. Is it acceptable for a document to be of lower content quality and still be compliant (any tables, charts, and diagrams in the PDF are lost but the rest is readable as text)? Chris O'Kennon Commonwealth of Virginia Webmaster/ VIPNet Portal Architect www.myvirginia.org ______________________________________ "Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will never know the terror of being forever lost at sea."
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