RE: Web Authoring Tools that are Both Accessible and Produce Accessible Content

Tell it like it is my man!

> So how many years have we been hearing that Adobe is committed to
> accessibility now?  Sorry folks but we should be seeing results from this
> company not more talk that's likely as not devoted to convincing the U.S.
> federal government that PDF files will be accessible as anything else.
>
> I'm sure that people will call me Mr. Negative for saying this but PDF
> files have been one of the worst things for accessibility and if I had a
> dollar for every person who's blind who's had trouble reading the results
> of a supposedly converted PDF file, I'd certainly be able to take a nice
> vacation.
>
> It is time that people with disabilities stand up and tell the government
> to quit using PDF until the company demonstrates 100 percent
> accessibility, not the sham they continue to portray as such.

Received on Tuesday, 9 May 2000 09:08:08 UTC