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Subject: Re: [office] Accessibility Question on ODF 1.O PDF file


Hi,

a tagged PDF version is now available at

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16053/OpenDocument-v1.0-os_tagged.pdf

I have also added it to the Specification section on the TC's web page.

Best regards

Michael

Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:

> 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!
>>>
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