- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:00:04 -0500
- To: "Access Systems" <accessys@smart.net>
- Cc: "William R Williams/R5/USDAFS" <wrwilliams@fs.fed.us>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
actually, it is a complex portable document format p d f that is supposed to be cross platform compatible. now if I could directly import it into word or a dos word processor or my favorite linux/unix flavor we'd have something. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Access Systems" <accessys@smart.net> To: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@home.com> Cc: "William R Williams/R5/USDAFS" <wrwilliams@fs.fed.us>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 5:01 PM Subject: Re: Acrobat PDF & Accessibility On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, David Poehlman wrote: maybe I'm wrong but isn't pdf a "photograph" of the page rather than actual letter codeing, sort of like a fax vs teletype machine?? > I'm not sure what you mean here bob but I think I agree <grin> The > trouble with the whole pdf thing is that html has been around since the > beginning of time and can be accessed by just about anything although I > remember a time in the dim and distant past when there was no such thing > in my world as an internet browser or an html converter so it wouldn't > have done me much good. Having said that, much of pdf if it is produced > propperly can be accessed or converted into something accessible by one > tool or another provided that one of the considerations that it is LYNX or at least my version of it chokes on pdf Bob > treated with is allowance of the opperation. Trouble is that there are > too many documents out there already done rong and too many people still > doing documents rong and it is still too easy to do it rong lots like > the web to make pdf worth the trip. > > This is not opinion. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Access Systems" <accessys@smart.net> > To: "William R Williams/R5/USDAFS" <wrwilliams@fs.fed.us> > Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 2:54 PM > Subject: Re: Acrobat PDF & Accessibility > > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, William R Williams/R5/USDAFS wrote: > > > It's been debated often, I suspect; yet, if my experience means > anything, > > much disagreement exists about the "true" accessibility of pdfs on the > web. > > Certainly, Adobe has promoted the application and worked diligently to > make > > them accessible, but others - such as Jakob Nielsen - suggest avoiding > pdfs > > for on-screen delivery. > > > > I know there are definite usability issues, but how does this group > stand > > on the accessibility of PDFs? > > > not group, but NEVER!!!! > > post em and then mail the URL > > Bob > > ASCII Ribbon Campaign accessBob > NO HTML/PDF/RTF in e-mail accessys@smartnospam.net > NO MSWord docs in e-mail Access Systems, > engineers > NO attachments in e-mail, *LINUX powered* access is a civil right > *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# > *#*#*# > THIS message and any attachements are CONFIDENTIAL and may be > privledged. They are intended ONLY for the individual or entity named > above. If you are not the intended recipient, Please notify the sender > as > soon as possible. Please DO NOT READ, COPY, USE, or DISCLOSE this > communication to others and DELETE it from your computer systems. > Thanks > > > > ASCII Ribbon Campaign accessBob NO HTML/PDF/RTF in e-mail accessys@smartnospam.net NO MSWord docs in e-mail Access Systems, engineers NO attachments in e-mail, *LINUX powered* access is a civil right *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# *#*#*# THIS message and any attachements are CONFIDENTIAL and may be privledged. They are intended ONLY for the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, Please notify the sender as soon as possible. Please DO NOT READ, COPY, USE, or DISCLOSE this communication to others and DELETE it from your computer systems. Thanks
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