[NFBCS] PDF accessibility is crazy

[Greg Kearney]

The real problem here is that making properly accessible PDF files is very dificult and few know how it is done.

Greg

> On Jul 12, 2021, at 9:43 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm taking a series of workshops this week, and all the access links are in
> a PDF.  I opened the document on 3 different machines in 4 different ways,
> but it only really worked on one.  
> 
> On my laptop, I tried opening it with Firefox andChrome, and neither worked
> well enough to use.
> 
> In Adobe BC, I tried opening it on my old Windows 7 PC, and that sort of
> worked, but not great. But it does work OK on my Windows10 laptop with Adobe
> BC, thank Goodness.
> 
> Why does accessibility have to be so complicated!
> 
> I tried to figure out if my 2 machines are running different versions of
> Adobe BC, but can't find where it keeps the version#.
> 
> If I download whatever Adobe I find onto my other laptop, is it likely to
> work, or is it only certain versions that work well?  The version that works
> is on my work laptop, so may be a pro version.
> 
> Really, it's insane to have to try so many things to find the one that is
> accessible.
> 
> Tracy
> 
> 
> 
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