[LINK] Government gives thumbs down to PDF format

[Fernando Cassia]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:
>   • 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.

That would be an improperly-created PDF file. PDF allows indexing of
the text, copy, paste (provided the creator has not locked down these
features), and mixing text and images, but text remains as text (not
bitmapped).

In other words... the moral of the story here is that file formats do
not prevent user stupidity when creating them.

Reminds me of my old man, whom insists of sending me screenshots not
as JPEG (JPG) files or other graphic format, but rather does
Alt-PrintScreen, and then opens OpenOffice.org and pastes the bitmap
into an empty ODF document, and mails that to me.

The result is that instead of a .JPG file, I receive an OpenOffice.org
attached file, that loads the full blown office suite, just to see a
bitmap, when I should really get a 50kb-file that can be seen inline
on my email client...

FC