- From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lguarino@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:45:40 -0700
- To: "Chris O'Kennon" <chris@vipnet.org>
- cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Chris, What application is used to generate the PDF files? Are they Tagged PDF files? If so, they are inherently more accessible, and the Save-As-XML plugin can be downloaded from the Adobe website for use with Acrobat 5 to generate HTML that will preserve the formatting. Loretta > > 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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