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Subject: Re: [office] Accessibility Question on ODF 1.O PDF file
Hi, the current specification document was created with OpenOffice.org 1.1 that did not create tagged PDF. I will create a new PDF with OpenOffice.org 2.0 next week. Michael Peter Korn wrote On 12/12/05 23:57,: > Hi Patrick, > > What was the source of this PDF file? If it was an ODF file, > StarOffice/OpenOffice.org has an export to PDF feature that will optionally > add PDF Tags as needed for accessibility (and which our friends at Adobe have > praised for accessibility purposes). Alternately, the Adobe Acrobat > Professional product can add this in after the fact. Also, we might be able > to prevail upon friends at Adobe to fix the file for us. > > But first step would be to find out what the source of the PDF is. > > > Regards, > > Peter Korn > Accessibility Architect, > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > > Patrick Durusau wrote: > >>Greetings! >> >>Since there is an accessibility question with regard to the OASIS >>membership PDF file, I opened the ODF 1.0 document in Acrobat to check >>on accessibility. >> >>The Accessibility Quick Check reports: >> >>"This document is not structured so the reading order may not be >>correct. Try different reading orders using the Reading Preferences panel." >> >>I tried the Read Aloud option with both the default setting, Infer >>reading order from document (recommended), and Left-to-right, >>top-to-bottom reading order. >> >>I tried reading the title page and page 32, which starts with a table. >> >>The built-in Adobe reader read both pages but I would be hard pressed to >>say that its reading of the table was very useful. There was, for >>example, no pause between the text in the last cell on one row and the >>text in the first cell on the next row. >> >>That may be the expected behavior but I am curious what difference, if >>any, having structure embedded in the Adobe document would make. >> >>Can someone more familiar with the impact of including structure in PDF >>on accessibiliity shed some light on that question? >> >>Hope everyone is having a great day! >> >>Patrick >> >>-- >>Patrick Durusau >>Patrick@Durusau.net >>Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface >>Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model >>Member, Text Encoding Initiative Board of Directors, 2003-2005 >> >>Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work! >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >>generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS >>at: >>https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php > > -- Michael Brauer Phone: +49 40 23646 500 Technical Architect Software Engineering Fax: +49 40 23646 550 StarOffice Development Sun Microsystems GmbH Sachsenfeld 4 D-20097 Hamburg, Germany e-mail: michael.brauer@sun.com
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