ActivePDF, accessibility, and the disabled
Mike M.
to people with disabilities? One of the requirements we now have in
Ontario is to make our web pages accessible. We can do this using
Acrobat 5.05 with the Make Accessible plug-in.
But with hundreds of PDF documents on the site I was wondering if I
could use activePDF server to convert exisiting accessible Word
documents on-the-fly? I own a copy of activePDF server but am
apprehesive about implementing it given the unfavourable postings. I
am aware that ActivePDF Toolkit has an InputCanMakeAccessible method
call from the APToolkit.Object but has anyone tried it yet?
Tim Sullivan
> Has anyone tried using activePDF server to make documents accessible
> to people with disabilities?
Whenever a document is opened with the latest version of Reader or
Acrobat, it is automatically "tagged" and made accessible to screen
readers. Now that has nothing to do with LOGICAL structure, but that
feature was shown to me by the folks from Adobe so I know that it does
work.
To make a document accessible is *not* as easy as "printing to pdf".
Making a document truly accessible requires "tagging" the document
which the Make Accessible plug-in does (or rather, attempts). The
Make PDF macro in Word using the latest version of Acrobat also does
this by virtue of using PDFMark.
To make a document accessible with activePDF Server, you would have to
insert the PDFMark (just like the MakePDF macro does) using the
appropriate method and it should work, no problem.
>I own a copy of activePDF server but am
> apprehesive about implementing it given the unfavourable postings.
Hmmmmm...there are thousands of activePDF Server customers out there.
I'm sure a few have had issues with the product (just like people that
grumble about Acrobat :-)).
> I
> am aware that ActivePDF Toolkit has an InputCanMakeAccessible method
> call from the APToolkit.Object but has anyone tried it yet?
That is a security property that means "Does the user of the input
document have the RIGHT to make the document accessible?" It has
nothing to do with actually making the document accessible.
Tim Sullivan
http://www.activepdf.com
mike.mo...@jus.gov.on.ca (Mike M.) wrote in message news:<86b2c3ae.02121...@posting.google.com>...
Laura Boone
wrote:
>Has anyone tried using activePDF server to make documents accessible
>to people with disabilities? One of the requirements we now have in
>Ontario is to make our web pages accessible. We can do this using
>Acrobat 5.05 with the Make Accessible plug-in.
I have Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 and I downloaded Make Accessible. It
is supposed to show up on the Document pull-down but it does not. Do
you know what I might be doing wrong?
Laura
Tom Hiett
> I have Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 and I downloaded Make Accessible. It
> is supposed to show up on the Document pull-down but it does not. Do
> you know what I might be doing wrong?
Its intended for Acrobat, not Acrobat Reader.
Tom