[duxuser] Re: Utility which may have Appeal to Duxbury Users
- From: gpatterson002@xxxxxxxxx
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:48:16 +0000
I know I would be interested, Don. I hope I don't miss any feedback you have
about this PDF utility. Thanks for the notification.
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Gary Patterson
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From: "Barrett, Don" <Don.Barrett@xxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [duxuser] Utility which may have Appeal to Duxbury Users
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:22:21 +0000
> Hi All,
>
> There is a company called Net-centric, which has written a quite popular
> PDF remediation tool called Common Look. This tool takes PDF documents
> and checks them for accessibility and remediates them with manual
> intervention as needed. The company is working on a new utility, called
> PAW, for PDF Authoring Wizard, which does the same for Word documents.
> One of the things this utility will do which is quite awesome is
> generate what is called "speak text" for tabular information. What this
> does is take the header for each column of cells and puts this text
> inside of each data cell, so that even without using table reading
> commands, a screen reader user can just arrow through a Word table and
> hear the proper heading paired with each piece of data in each cell.
>
> If this works as I hope it will, this might produce awesome Braille, in
> that there would be no more guessing, counting stair steps or columns,
> or anything like that, since the heading information would be brailled
> with each cell data as well.
>
> If people are interested and this works well, I will let you all know
> when I get my beta of PAW. Frankly, I would love to see Duxbury
> implement an internal process which does the same thing; tables have
> always been a nightmare.
>
>
> Don Barrett
> Section 508 Coordinator
> U.S. Dept. of Education
> 400 Maryland Avenue, SW
> LBJ, 1W116
> Washington, DC 20202
> (202) 453-7320
>
>
>
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