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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Frank Palinkas
Sent: 08 June 2007 06:19
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Use of PDFs - Accessibility issues
Hi Michael,
Not sure if this will help you
Many thanks to everyone for posts and personal replies on this thread. I
appreciate you all taking the time to respond.
The opinions that most people have kindly put forward are very similar
to my own, but I guess that I wanted to make sure that I wasn't about to
give an inappropriate
On Jun 7, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Nick Gleitzman wrote:
Nick Roper wrote:
Just to confirm, the recommendation from the agency is to replace
existing html content with PDF version, not to provide PDFs as an
additional alternative.
Nick, you've made it fairly clear that your question is about
I thing PDF may be delivery as a complement for save the doc to our computer.
And should not be the single format for a web document, only if theres
no other better way to display it.
I thing there is no format to the web more complaint than a html web page.
I like PDF when i want to save the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/07/2007 08:04:01 AM:
Anyway, to get to the point, the customer has now been advised by a
marketing agency that the site should be reduced in size to approx 45
key pages, and that the majority of content for things such as
conference room specification and
June 2007 23:00
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Use of PDFs - Accessibility issues
There was some discussion recently about how hard it is to create
accessible PDFs (ie very hard) but I would've thought the obvious reason
not to do it is that not everyone has a PDF reader
Nick Roper wrote:
Just to confirm, the recommendation from the agency is to replace
existing html content with PDF version, not to provide PDFs as an
additional alternative.
Nick, you've made it fairly clear that your question is about
accessiblity in PDFs, rather than whether or not it's a
Mark Hedley wrote:
Handheld users CAN view PDF.
Rather a sweeping statement -- my SideKick II certainly can't.
Though I can't imagine that I'd want it to -- it's bad enough that
so many HTML sites don't linearize well to a small screen. A fixed
format like PDF would be really painful to deal
Schroeder
Sent: 07 June 2007 23:46
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Use of PDFs - Accessibility issues
Mark Hedley wrote:
Handheld users CAN view PDF.
Rather a sweeping statement -- my SideKick II certainly can't.
Though I can't imagine that I'd want it to -- it's bad enough
Of Hassan Schroeder
Sent: 07 June 2007 23:46
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Use of PDFs - Accessibility issues
Mark Hedley wrote:
Handheld users CAN view PDF.
Rather a sweeping statement -- my SideKick II certainly can't.
Though I can't imagine that I'd want it to -- it's bad enough
size - bandwidth and cost being the limiting factors here.
Brad Pollard
http://www.fatpublisher.com.au
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From: John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Use of PDFs - Accessibility issues
Do both...
keep HTML for all the reasons already been raised (plus more) but maybe
do a few pdfs as well which can be used as either print outs etc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/06/2007 6:00:00 am
There was some discussion recently about how hard it is to create
accessible PDFs (ie very hard) but I
Here is the thread that discussed making PDFs accessible:
http://www.mail-archive.com/wsg@webstandardsgroup.org/msg28067.html
The effort involved in creating the PDFs in an accessible format will be
significant.
Handheld users frequently avoid opening PDFs since they are often a large
file
: Re: [WSG] Use of PDFs - Accessibility issues
Here is the thread that discussed making PDFs accessible:
http://www.mail-archive.com/wsg@webstandardsgroup.org/msg28067.html
The effort involved in creating the PDFs in an accessible format will be
significant.
Handheld users frequently avoid
Anyway, to get to the point, the customer has now been advised by a
marketing agency that the site should be reduced in size to approx 45
key pages, and that the majority of content for things such as
conference room specification and rates, bedroom specs and rates, menus,
events, golf rates,
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