- From: Kelly Ford <kford@teleport.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 05:28:33 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
As a real world example of what I'm talking about I urge anyone to convert the following URL to text using Acrobat's tools. http://www.boston.com/globe/acrobat/today.pdf You can simply email that URL to the address of pdf2txt@adobe.com and you'll get back a converted file. The technical reasons and solutions presented here are all good suggestions. But if it is hard enough convincing people creating web pages to consider accessibility, it is going to be that much more difficult to ask them to explore the production and installation of their tools for creating .pdf files. Below is a partial excerpt of the URL I mentioned. Apparently in this case the converter doesn't know that the alphabet has a letter "f". From pdf2txt@Adobe.COM Fri Aug 21 05:22:49 1998 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 05:20:17 -0700 From: pdf2txt <pdf2txt@Adobe.COM> To: Kelly Ford <kford@teleport.com> *Pages 1--1 from Untitled* By Brian McGrory and Chris Black GLOBE STAFF WASHI GTO _ The United States launched night missile attacks yesterday on what o icials de-scribed as a '' terrorist university'' in the hills o A -ghanistan and on a terrorist-sponsored chemical plant in the Sudan, in retaliation or the bombings o two US embassies in A rica two weeks ago. The attacks ollowed US intelligence reports say-ing that key terrorist leaders rom the Middle East had gathered at the A ghanistan training acility be-lieved to be operated by Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, the top suspect in the embassy bombings whom Presi-dent Clinton yesterday called one o the prime terror-ist threats in the world. The attacks also ollowed intelligence by US o i-cials anticipating additional terrorist attacks on US targets, possibly at overseas embassies. Clinton gave inal orders or the attacks, which produced no US casualties, early yesterday morning rom his vacation compound on Martha's Vineyard. He made a hasty announcement in Edgartown in the early a ternoon, then rushed back to Washington or meet-ings in the White House situation room and to deliver an Oval O ice address. The operation had been planned in secret or the past two weeks, senior o icials said. '' Today we have struck back, '' Clinton said in the makeshi t brie ing room at the Edgartown School be-ore he le t. He added: '' Terrorists must have no doubt that in the ace o their threats, America will protect its citizens. ''
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