- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:16:36 -0800
- To: "Kristine M. Bradow" <kbradow@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
- Cc: W3C Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, Bob Erlandson <rerlands@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
The Harvey Mudd College policy is to avoid using PDF whenever possible, and if we _do_ use it, to describe the file's contents, size, and format; provide links to the Adobe page for downloading a reader; and always have a link to http://access.adobe.com/ which has a crude conversion utility. Our policy is (for now) at: http://www3.hmc.edu/~kynn/policy/pdf.html It's not yet fully implemented on our site because, hey, I just wrote it last week. :) At 12:59 p.m. 12/23/98 -0500, Kristine M. Bradow wrote: >I need to put some documents up on the web that the people I work with >can download from the web. I was planning on just putting the documents >in *.pdf format and inserting a link to the Adobe Acrobat reader page, >but I thought that I'd ask and see how such a solution rates in terms of >accessibility--what, if any, accessibility problems would requiring a >plug-in like Acrobat create? If it would present a problem, can any of >you offer an alternative? Converting the gross amount of literature that >I need to put up into HTML creates a formatting nightmare that I'd >prefer to avoid if possible--especially since some of the documents are >not all just text. > >Thanks and Happy Holidays, >Kristine Bradow >Enabling Technologies Laboratory >Wayne State University >Detroit, MI >http://ece.eng.wayne.edu/etl > > > -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.idyllmtn.com/~kynn/ Chief Technologist & Co-Owner, Idyll Mountain Internet; Fullerton, California Enroll now for web accessibility with HTML 4.0! http://www.hwg.org/classes/ The voice of the future? http://www.hwg.org/opcenter/w3c/voicebrowsers.html
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