- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:19:27 -0500 (EST)
- To: Craig Hadley <craig@4thandgoal.com>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Officially, the Adobe thing works. Practically it works too - it translates PDF into HTML. How useful the resulting HTML is depends a lot on the original PDF - some PDF can be translated into extremely useful content, other PDF turns out more or less pointless. Authoring good HTML or authoring good PDF is preferable - it is possible to use both formats to make something that is more or less useless to readers. cheers Charles On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Craig Hadley wrote: Hello, Re: Can you provide the newsletter ON YOUR SITE in a more accessible format? HTML and/or text would be fine. You'd get a much wider audience that way. Link: http://www.ocstc.org/newsltr.htm I have several clients that offer their newsletters in PDF format like the example above. Obviously html would be preferable, but their budgets do not allow for the newsletter(s) to be made into html while the commercial printer will provide a PDF version at little or no cost. The impression I am under is that Adobe offers PDF to text/html translation through their web site. Does this service work in a both an official and practical sense? Re: http://holstius.com/span_tags.html Outside of the span issues, this page looks wildly different in I.E. 5.0 and Netscape 4.5. Regards, Craig Hadley Madison, WI -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia September - November 2000: W3C INRIA, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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