- From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:58:52 -0700
- To: Mary Utt <maryutt@paciellogroup.com>
- Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <BANLkTineY0RHe4=H1YfKUeHX+9tCTd0GeA@mail.gmail.com>
Mary, following discussion during today's teleconference, could you change the introduction of the PDF Technology section to read: The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format for representing documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system used to create them, as well as of the output device on which they are to be displayed or printed. PDF files specify the appearance of pages in a document in a reliable, device-independent manner. The PDF specification was introduced by Adobe Systems in 1993 as a publicly available standard. In January 2008, PDF 1.7 became an ISO standard (ISO 32000-1). Of note for accessibility is PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) which became an ISO Draft International Standard (DIS) in November 2010 (ISO/DIS 14289-1). (See PDF/UA Wiki (ISO DIS 14289 - 1).) The scope of PDF/UA is not meant to be a techniques (how-to) specification, but rather a set of guidelines for creating accessible PDF. The specification describes the required and prohibited components and the conditions governing their inclusion in or exclusion from a PDF file in order for the file to be available to the widest possible audience, including those with disabilities. The mechanisms for including the components in the PDF stream are left to the discretion of the individual developer, PDF generator, or PDF viewing agent. PDF/UA also specifies the rules governing the behavior for a conforming reader.
Received on Thursday, 14 April 2011 21:59:15 UTC