[Kde-accessibility] PDF accessibility

[Peter Korn]

Hi Gary,

The good folks at Adobe have been working on PDF accessibility for a while 
now, including PDF accessibility on UNIX and GNU/Linux systems.  In fact, 
their latest releases of Adobe Reader for GNU/Linux and for Solaris-SPARC 
implement the UNIX Accessibility Architecture and have been tested with the 
Gnopernicus screen reader (see my rather breathless blog entry on this at 
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/korn/20050805).

I'm not sure what mailing lists you can find them on, but I've taken the 
liberty of cc-ing 3 of the folks I've worked with at Adobe on UNIX Adobe 
Reader accessibility.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team


Gary Cramblitt wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 August 2005 10:54 am, Brad Hards wrote:
> 
>>See below for a nice set of links.
>>http://www.planetpdf.com/enterprise/learningcenter.asp?ContainerID=1505
>>
>>I'm going to explore PDF tagging support in Poppler, as a likely better
>>solution than trying to guess the structure out of the document.
>>
>>BTW: Is there a list I should be on to discuss this stuff with the KDE
>>accessibility team?
>>
>>Brad
> 
> 
> Thank you Brad, I'll look these documents over when I have more time.
> 
> Olaf Schmidt mentioned that we ought to have support for Accessibility PDF 
> docs in KDE and that should be a goal for KPDF.  I doubt however that most 
> documents are Accessibility PDF, so we still need a solution for them.  
> Someone should also take a look at the PDF printer and other PDF output 
> capabilities in KDE to ensure they produce Accessibile PDF.  I am pretty sure 
> the PDF Printer does not as it tends to produce image only.
> 
> The best place for accessibility discussions would be the 
> kde-accessibility.kde.org mailing list.  Subscribe at 
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility
> 
> On the other hand, perhaps it should be discussed in front of the PDF 
> developers.  Where do most hang out?
>