- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:35:05 -0500
- To: "Vadim Plessky" <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
we don't own them. we own the right to use them. if that means altering them in some way, we technically violate the copy right. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vadim Plessky" <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru> To: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@home.com> Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: Re: Acrobat PDF & Accessibility On Sunday 23 December 2001 15:43, David Poehlman wrote: | 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. And Dmitry Sklyarov's case definitly comes here in mind. What about e-Books? Are the rights to read them *in a way you prefer* (like Screen Reder, or with increased/changed fonts) granted to us by the Constitution, or given by Content Publisher? to rephrase my question: Do you break any law by applying "publicly available free conversion tools" on some content which is *owned* by you? (either you loaded it from the intrnet, or bought in shop/online, or leased, or rights to use this content was given to you by friend, etc.) | | ----- 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. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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