[LINK] Government gives thumbs down to PDF format

[Ben McGinnes]

On 1/12/10 9:22 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
>>
>> While the use of PDF files was prolific and preferred over other
>> formats, the study also found that:
>>
>> • 80 percent of respondents do not complement the use of PDF files
>> without alternate formats;
>> • PDF files are used by a wide variety of organisations but those
>> are blind or have low vision experience many problems with
>> multi-column designs;
>> • Screen readers are unable to interact with a document saved as an
>> image-only PDF file because images are not accessible to people who
>> are blind.
>> • Employing workaround methods to access inaccessible PDF files
>> results in a degraded experience when compared to accessing
>> equivalent documents in other formats.
> 
> http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/pdf-accessibility-study/index.html

There is, of course, a real irony here in that the report is published
as a PDF.  At least it is also available as HTML too, but that's only
on the website, there isn't a non-PDF version available for download.


Regards,
Ben


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