One more caveat. Only PDF documents that are created statically, can be tagged at this point. Any PDF's created dynamically (through ActivePDF, <CFDocument> or a report writer, will not be tagged and will not be able to be considered accessible (either via 508 or WCAG).
Tagging is only as good as the original document. Therefore, try to create your documents in a structural manner (in Word, use the styles rather than creating visual formatting using font sizes or bolding. Apply the formatting to the styles instead. PDF tagging can be slow and painful, it can take up to 20 hours to correctly tag a bad 8 page document. If you are using Acrobat 5 or 6, I am hosting two documents by Julian Rickards on my site http://www.shayna.com (go to articles) on Writing for and Editing PDF files. If you are using Acrobat 7, there is an excellent manual on editing only (the writing for article on my site is still valid) at http://www.htctu.net/trainings/manuals/web/CreatingAccessibleAA7.pdf At the moment, except for two consent decrees in New York last year with both Ramada and Priceline, there are no cases that fall under the ADA. Web Accessibility and the ADA are not tied together. The target case will garner a lot of interest, but at least for the moment, even if the target case is deemed to come under the ADA, the requirement will probably be for the company to adhere to the WCAG 1.0 up to Priority 2 (or at least parts of it). That is what happened with the consent decrees in New York. Also if the ADA will be found to apply to the web, it will still only apply to those web sites that have bricks and mortor businesses at all. So while the ADA can be applied to something like Target, its going to be harder to have something like Ebay come under the ADA. Section 508 is strictly for Federal Government Executive Branch Departments and Agencies as well as those who build web sites with money they get from those entities (usually in the form of grants). It does not apply to Congress, or the Judicial Branch, nor to the White House and its staff. Many universities and states typically adopt the WCAG (as well as other countries) if they adopt web accessibility guidelines at all. Sandy Clark -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 6:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ADA compliance and PDF > Has anyone worked with ADA Compliant web sites? Are PDF's considered > ADA Compliant? I seem to remember there being a PDF reader out there, > but I can't seem to find it anywhere. > > I am providing an educational site with the ability to upload ed. > resources in PDF format, but everything has to be 100% ADA compliant. > Now I'm thinking that I'm going to have to provide them with a means > to upload the same resource in HTML, because I can't find any evidence > that says PDF's are OK. That's gonna suck.... You need to go here: http://access.adobe.com/ Section 508 compliance isn't exactly the same as ADA compliance, but they both target the same sort of functionality. PDFs can be accessible, if they're done right. Acrobat itself has accessibility checking functionality built-in, and will let you tag your PDFs for screen reading and reflowing on non-standard devices such as PDAs. That said, this isn't something that can easily be automated, so you'd either have to check each PDF yourself, or trust your contributors to create accessible PDFs (good luck with that!) For end-user testing, you can run Acrobat's Accessibility Setup Assistant, which controls how documents appear on screen and how they'll print on a Braille printer. Interestingly, if you install Acrobat on a Tablet PC, it'll automatically launch the Accessibility Setup Assistant - touch screens are included in Tablet PC, and Acrobat considers this assistive technology. You can also have Acrobat read PDFs to you using MS Agent text-to-speech functionality. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:232104 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
