PDFs Redux

Posted January 11th, 2005 by Christopher Phillips

article from earlier this year on accessible pdf.


adobe just announced acrobat 7.0 with “advanced accessibility features”– see bottom of page 2 here. interesting stuff on canada’s accessibility requirements.

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    • One Response to: “PDFs Redux”

    1. kevin responds:
      Posted: March 10th, 2005 at 8:10 pm →

      PDFs are for printing not browsing or reading.
      PDF were originally desinged to be a device and platform independent way of printing documents. Adobe added then decided PDFs should be web browsers or pages, and it all went downhill from there.

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