Re: Question about SC 1.4.2 - can this be met by relying on Windows (or otherwise the platform or user agent) to do it for you? from Ramón Corominas on 2013-06-27 (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org from April to June 2013)

From: Ramón Corominas <rcorominas@technosite.es>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:46:53 +0200
To: gv@trace.wisc.edu
CC: Adam Solomon <adam.solomon2@gmail.com>, Peter Korn <peter.korn@oracle.com>, WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Message-ID: <51CC0A0D.4070800@technosite.es>

None of the PDF techniques are accessibility supported out of Windows 
systems. Or at least I don't know of any user agent on MacOS or Linux 
that allows access to text alternatives, headings or table structure, 
form controls, links, etc. using VoiceOver or Orca.

Gregg wrote:

>   We have techniques that rely on free browsers that work across 
> platforms.  But to my knowledge we don't have any sufficient techniques 
> that only work on a browser that is only available on one platform.   
> 
> Maybe, but don't think we would or did.

Received on Thursday, 27 June 2013 09:52:15 UTC