[access-uk] tables in PDF documents: a need for more accessibility
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Access-Uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:36:13 -0000
This is more a general observation than anything else.
I've come across a few examples of PDF tables not being accessible. The latest
example being of a local authority's mobile library timetable. Point is though
that although the time table was presented in a table type layout in appearance,
it wasn't actually a table in the technical sense - as confirmed by GW Micro. I
wonder if anyone has found a table within a PDF which they can read with their
screen reader's table mode?
I do accept that PDF has, for understandable reasons, become the more or less
standard way in which information documents are distributed now. I, unlike
many, don't really object to this as PDFs can be very accessible if done
properly. It is getting irksome though not having train timetables and the like
being read out properly when distributed via PDF.
Who should we direct such comments to, apart from the organisations concerned?
Shouldn't RNIB, Ability Net and other national bodies be doing something too?
Is there a good source to direct organisations and the website developers to so
they can do it properly?
From Ray
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