Dear Clare and the dis list
Initially accessibility features were only available with the non free
Adobe Acrobat writer 5 but due to pressure from users and section 508
the reader programme now comes with accessibility. In my view it was
immoral for Adobe to charge disabled people for access
You can load adobe acrobat 5 with accessibility features on the link
below:-
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html
The "accessibility feature" is a menu item that lets you save text from
acrobat files as text.
To put it mildly it's a real rigmarole getting info out of adobe and
into word and have it read by Jaws. I think this constitutes an
unreasonable extra barrier to access having had to do it myself and
watch another person doing it.
My feeling is to wherever possible publish stuff as html. There was a
fair ammount of agreement about this in recent dis forum messages.
Acrobats reason d'etre is to reproduce accurately the printed page on
any printing device. This is arguably not appropriate for web based
material which most people read on screen with a wide variety of viewing
devices and software
Hope this is useful
What do the rest of you think?
Gwil
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