- From: Access Systems <accessys@smart.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:04:56 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- cc: WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Joe Clark wrote:
> >That final analysis rests with you, and in my mind it's quite
> >simple: if you want to be able to claim compliance with WCAG1.0, you
> >need to address the issue of PDFs.
>
> It's been addressed. A wide variety of PDFs can be made adequately
> accessible to many groups. Time has marched on.
please explain how I should make my pdf's readable
I'm running Red Hat Linux 9
browsing using Lynx
and screen reader is emacspeak
> >Maybe I'm over-interpreting, but: I would class PDFs as non-text content
> Except for all that text inside them.
no it is not, it is essentially a photograph of the text but it is not
text
Bob
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