- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 10:43:39 -0500
- To: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: "Jason Megginson" <jason@bartsite.com>, "'Ken Reader'" <kreader@attaininc.org>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
actually, you cannot run a fully secure document through any of the publicly available free conversion tools that I know of without getting a similar message to that which you get when you bring them up in acrobat reader 5.05. or 5.5. The security issue is a grave one because in order to grant access to screen readers the propper flag must be set by the author unless this has been changed with 5.05. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org> To: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@home.com> Cc: "Jason Megginson" <jason@bartsite.com>; "'Ken Reader'" <kreader@attaininc.org>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 9:58 AM Subject: Re: Acrobat PDF & Accessibility This is a good point. But I would be surprised if the result of running a document through a PDF to HTML conversion chagnes the copyright status, which would mean that having tested / improved the result, you can post it as an alternative form. cheers Charles On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, David Poehlman wrote: Only one thing to add here and that is that pdfs marked up with the new tags will not be accessible to people who cannot use the new pdf readers and are behind a firewall that does not allow them to get their documents converted or who do not have access to email of which there are still many who will not be able to access outside email.
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