- From: Mike Scott <mscott@msfw.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:17:21 -0600
- To: "Massey, Nancy" <nmassey@postoffice.dca.net>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Nancy, Adobe has a white paper called "Optimizing Adobe PDF Files for Accessibility" (http://access.adobe.com/white-paper.html). It includes some very basic Optimization Guidelines. My initial experience with the Adobe Access Plug-in has been quite positive. The limitations are similar those of the early web screen readers, e.g. graphics without descriptions and complex multi-column layout are the main problems. I believe some of their future enhancements will focus on identifying the appropriate reading order for complex layouts. For now, simple (single-column or uncomplicated multi-column) documents convert very well for use with a screen reader. Mike -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Massey, Nancy Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 9:18 AM To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: PDFs and Link Charles, I am intrigued by your comment of "good PDF". Up until recently I have not had occasion to need to create PDF's for clients, but will be very shortly. Can you suggest any resources where I might learn more about good vs bad PDF. Thanks, -Nancy At 10:19 PM 12/05/2000, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >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
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