Hi Harish, in no way my objective was to link up the copyright issue with
the inaccessibility of the PDF documents, it was just an ironical
situation
that we all have to face I was talking about. In any case, there have been
variety of other innumerable issues that we confront with respect to the
PDF
documents.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kotian, H P" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] PDF Inaccessibility
Dear Vikas
Strictly speaking, this issue is out of scope from the Copyright bill. In
keeping with the spirit of your assertion, we certainly must demand
accessible PDF statement. This is a perpetual battle we will have to deal
with.
There cannot be a software solution because the content developer in his
wisdom set the security so.
Accessibility is an unearthly word in the world of the able bodied. The
effort involved is so huge it feels like ants trying to pull a railway
wagon.
Harish Kotian
-----Original Message-----
From: Vikas Kapoor [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 14 June 2012 12:59
To: Access India
Subject: [AI] PDF Inaccessibility
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,
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