[jaws-uk] Re: ADOBE PDF - technological discrimination to it's best!
- From: "Gary Ankin" <gary.ankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 17:13:33 +0100
I would suggest that if anyone wanted to pursue the issue of Adobe and its
non access to screen readers when file has been protected by another party
they send an email to the BBC Radio 4 In touch programme. I think their
email is
intouch@xxxxxxxxx
This way it might get someair time the other route is to contact Educational
Institutions that are primarily for Visually Impaired students.
Regards
Gary
in the UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mujtaba Merchant" <mujtabam@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <campaigns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 4:39 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] ADOBE PDF - technological discrimination to it's best!
> Hello Concerned'
>
>
> I write to you from India. I am a late blind and wanted to address this
> issue with ADOBE and it's products. I have mailed a few forums on this
> regard and they all accept/ agree that this issue I am trying to address
> is
> technological discrimination to it's best!
>
>
>
> I would like to take this up directly with ADOBE but as an individual I
> don't think that I can go that mile. Hence this email to you, suggested by
> one of the members of a mailing list. Hope you will be in a position to
> direct this concern to the right ears in ADOBE.
>
>
>
> The Concern: "Using Adobe Acrobat, when an author makes the conscious
> decision to protect a PDF document, they can choose to add a password,
> restrict editing and printing, restrict copying images, text, and other
> content, restrict text access for screen readers. Yep, you heard that last
> one correctly. Adobe provides authors with the ability to explicitly deny
> access to assistive technology. This aberration is clearly marked with a
> check box labeled, "Enable text access for screen reader devices for the
> visually impaired." I applaud Adobe for taking the lead in creating
> accessible electronic documentation by providing access to PDF documents,
> but I will never understand the inclusion of an option that gives someone
> the ability to decide whether or not accessibility should exist. That
> check
> box should have never been created, and it needs to be removed.
> Accessibility is something that should not be decided by a flick of a
> mouse
> button from the hand of a sighted person who doesn't have the first clue
> as
> to why a blind person needs access to a PDF in the first place.
> Accessibility should not be optional!"
>
>
>
> The above is an extract from the GW Micro website, it explains the
> scenario
> very simply. This is the issue I and many other blind users of PDF files
> face one time or the other. We get the PDF file and when we try to open
> it,
> it gives us a message that Alert, document protected to screen reader or
> something on the same lines. Added to this their flash player is of
> another
> concern, the menu items are not at all accessible, I keep getting update
> alerts almost every week from them but can't get it to update the flash
> player because I have no clue what the unlabelled buttons on the update
> screen are for. Sighted help is always around in my case but why bother
> them
> on these not so trivial issues that could have been addressed by the
> product
> company itself?
>
>
>
> So kindly suggest a way to get this addressed and help me and all of us
> that
> need a break with this technological discrimination.
>
>
>
> Thank you for your support!
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mujtaba Merchant
>
> Bangalore, India
>
> The only disability in life is a BAD ATTITUDE ` Scott Hamilton
>
>
>
>
>
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