Re: Adobe Acrobat - PDF - Accessibility

["Sarr Blumson" <sarr@umich.edu>]

In message <CHEOINFOFILKBGKIOOFCKELBCAAA.jbrandt@gwi.net>, 
"John Brandt" writes:
>For those of you who may not have heard...Adobe has introduced a new web
>site to assist users of Adobe Acrobat in making the product accessible to
>individuals using AT. Acrobat's PDF files are unreadable by text readers
>making them unusable by many folks with visual disabilities. Adobe has
>offered a free service where they will convert any PDF file into a HTML file
>by providing the URL to their on-line converting engine.
>
>http://access.adobe.com

Adobe began providing this service several years ago.  At one point the 
software that does it was available as well, but only for Windows.  I 
haven't checked that recently.

Some reasons why this isn't all that helpful:

-Translating one URL at a time is tedious at best.  If the stuff you need 
isn't open to the general public, the converter is useless.

-The user version, if it still exists at all, is Windows only.

-They apparently have made absolutely _no_ progress since this service was 
announced, at least three years ago.

sarr

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