Hello
I am trying to work out whether a Rich Text File is considered
accessible, to the extent that Australian federal government agencies
must provide electronic documents in an accessible format.
RTF is owned by Microsoft, but most word processors can read it.
Apparently if styles are
Hi Jessica,
The 2 formats most commonly provided formats by Government departments is
PDF RTF format.
Cheers,
Rae
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Jessica Enders [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello
I am trying to work out whether a Rich Text File is considered accessible,
to the extent that
Hello Rae,
Wondering where you get this info, and what countries you are speaking
of.
- Josh
Rae Buerckner wrote:
Hi Jessica,
The 2 formats most commonly provided formats by Government departments
is PDF RTF format.
Cheers,
Rae
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Jessica
Hi Josh,
I work in Private Sector now, but until 1 year ago I was had of Ministerial
and Prime Ministerial Projects in the ICT Applications Branch at the
Department of Industry Tourism Resources in Canberra Australia.
Cheers,
Rae
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Josh Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if styles are used correctly, RTF files can be used well by screen readers.
RTF doesn't use 'styles' in the way that Word (or HTML) does, it
applies presentation tags, the semantic based styles that Word has
(e.g. Heading 1) are not there. There's an example on the Wikipedia
page:
Jessica Enders wrote:
I am trying to work out whether a Rich Text File is considered
accessible, to the extent that Australian federal government agencies
must provide electronic documents in an accessible format.
Is there a list of accessibility features that a format must allow, or
does the
This topic is very interesting. As a screen reader user I have enjoyed always
getting Rich Text files. I use to get bills in HTML which was great. However,
everything is now PDFs. I hate PDFs! With a little more care, you could do
everything a PDF does in an HTML file. I use a RTF editor called
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This topic is very interesting. As a screen reader user I have enjoyed always
getting Rich Text files. I use to get bills in HTML which was great. However
