Thanks for the input everyone. Jeff: I completely realize that Adobe has made a lot of effort to include things like accessibility, and I commend them for it.
The issues I've observed though, is that for a general audience, expectancy changes when users are presented with a PDF on the web, they don't expect to interact with it like a web page and therefor even though you can include things like links in a PDF, they get confused by them. I think this is what Nielson has been observing as well. Pauric: Good point, and I'll keep that in mind. However for the work I'm doing now, the documents in question are for the general public and are not really part of any specific workflow. They're really just content. Bruce: Thanks, I myself am a fan of DITA. Here however I'm not as concerned with a technical solution for publishing the content as I am with the experience of consuming it. What I'm looking for is real world results and analysis of the experience users have when accessing content on the web through a PDF vs. rendered HTML. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=25459 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
