[vicsireland] Re: PDF accessibility project

  • From: Mark Magennis <Mark.magennis@xxxxxxx>
  • To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:58:07 +0100

Thanks for looking at them Maureen. There's a short form on the website for 
leaving your comments, just under the heading Leave A Reply.

Mark

On 15 Oct 2010, at 11:34, Maureen Newelll wrote:

> Mark I looked at the below but was unsuccessful in giving feed back 
> comments - don't know why! The first document . Gannet-word.pdf
> is the only one I could read, the other two froze, I could get nothing. I 
> am using JAWS 8, Adobe 8.1.1 and Word 2003.  I don't know if this makes a 
> difference - perhaps! Feel free to pass on my comments.
> 
> Maureen.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Magennis" <Mark.magennis@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Vics Mailing List" <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 10:46 AM
> Subject: [vicsireland] PDF accessibility project
> 
> 
> Here's something worthwhile giving feedback on if you have a spare moment. 
> This guy Roger Hudson does some great work on accessibility. He's now 
> looking at PDFs and needs some testing input from AT users.
> 
> Forwarded from Alan M. Dalton in the NDA:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Roger Hudson, an accessibility consultant, has published 3 PDF documents
> that he created from Microsoft Word documents. He has asked for people who
> use assistive technologies to let him know how accessible each PDF document
> is [1]. He created 1 PDF document with Microsoft Word's "Save as PDF"
> option. He created another PDF document with Adobe Acrobat 9.0, but didn't
> modify its tag order. He created a third PDF document with Adobe Acrobat
> 9.0, and did modify its tag order.
> 
> It sounds like an interesting project.
> 
> [1] http://www.dingoaccess.com/accessibility/are-these-pdfs-accessible/
> 
> Regards,
> Alan.
> _
> Alan Dalton
> Accessibility Development Advisor for EtA http://www.nda.ie/eta
> Access Officer for NDA http://www.nda.ie
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> Address: National Disability Authority, 25 Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
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