Count me in as even I have to read heavy PDF files by power industry regulators. And because I can’t navigate, find or edit anything comfortably, I have to invest time in converting them in word doc by Abby Find reader.
I think, we can approach the root cause by addressing it to adobe or freedom scientific. On 6/14/12, Vikas Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > It is deeply regretted that on the one hand the copyright bills has given us > an opportunity to access an abundance of print material which hither to > cannot be accessed by the print disabled people, while on the other hand > we're unable to access our own personal documents, be they the medical > reports, bank statements or any official bills because most of the corporate > sectors these days are producing the PDF documents in such a way which > cannot be read out by any screen reader. For quite some time, the Lal > Pathology Laboratory, which is supposed to be the best accredited lab all > over India has been producing the personal medical reports which are not > accessible through any screen reader. As soon as you open them, you screen > reader will give you a message "the Author set this documents in a way which > prevents access," and the JAWS will say protection failure., needless to > mention that the contents are very much visible on the screen for a sighted > people and not accessible by the screen readers. If anybody has any solution > to this, can share, except indeed suggesting to convert the same with the > help of any OCR programme, which is of course is the last option. I think > we, as an organization, or any registered organisation can approach to them > and launch the protest on behalf of the entire VI community because this is > also a violation to our right to print accessibility. > Vikas Kapoor, > MSN Id: [email protected], Yahoo&Skype Id: dl_vikas, > Mobile: (+91) 9891098137. > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > -- “The waves breaking on the surface draw all the attention, but it is the current beneath the water that determines your direction.” Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
