Thanks Larry for your contribution.
Tsitsi
Larry Arnold <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Well those assessing for DSA are allways too mean to give you what you really want, and it gets
meaner when you are postgrad. I wanted acrobat, what self respecting person does not but instead
have something called omnipage which will scan and read PDF files and translate them into word, and
of course you can save them back into PDF as well but it is not quite the same.
I am forever having to come up with workarounds for filling in forms.
Gets worse as I may be in for a fight with the Uni, over them providing me with electronic cover
sheets for assignments in the first place, cos they have an inherent resistance to anything
practical, efficient or even useful, they would have you write with quill pens if they could get
away with it, because it is tradition.
Larry
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sally Dixon
> Sent: 05 October 2007 15:30
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> Subject: Re: PDF files
>
> Don't use it - uses something like Word instead!!! Which can
> be read by many AT software programmes, much more easily. I
> will let someone else go into further detail on all the
> issues for people with VI's.
>
> But as someone that does not have the dexterity to write, but
> can manage to use my computer to type and send mail
> sometimes, but doesn't have the mobility to get to the post
> office/post box either, I need to receive electronic versions
> of any forms that need completing and returning, and unless
> you can afford a full version of acrobat, and I don't know
> any disabled person, trying to get by purely on, or mainly
> on, benefits, that can afford that. They just have the free
> Reader version, that does not allow you to fill in/amend
> parts of the document/form. I need electronic versions of
> forms that allow me to add to them on my computer, and then
> email them back afterwards.
>
> So for studying, if you also need to add notes to handouts or
> lecture notes, you need your computer there with an
> accessible version of the document open, to annotate it etc.
> People unable to write, can really be disadvantaged, as they
> can't add little but important, notes besides the very brief
> bullet point type details that might be in
> handouts(powerpoint is not great for this either - there is
> usually very little room to be able to type in more detailed
> notes, to be able to really understand/remember the detail
> that is spoken but not provided in a written format at lectures.
> Really, you need to be sent the electronic and accessible
> versions in advance, so that you have time if you wish, to
> save one copy without your extra notes, but copy them and
> slightly change the name of the file, to be able to annotate
> in the lectures.
>
> regards
> Sally
>
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