- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:24:05 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Gian Wild wrote: > Thought you might be interested in this article about how removing PDFs > increased traffic by 1.6 million hits! > http://briarbird.com/archives/564/ > Unfortunately, the headline on this article could encourage people to mechanically convert, which is likely to make things worse. Incidentally, I have often sought out PDFs because they are not fragmented into pages, and possibly more importantly, because they are more likely to have been written by technical authors, rather than advertising copy writers. The latter means that any conversion to HTML must be done by someone trained in semantic markup, not in someone trained in marketing. Trying to make the HTML look like the PDF, as a primary aim will not achieve accessibility, nor will re-writing it in typical commercial web page style. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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