[blindlaw] 508 compliance clone?

[ckrugman at sbcglobal.net]

To a certain extent depending on the quality of the scan they can be made 
accessible if you are using Kurzweil or Open Book software. However, any 
attempt to require the accessibility of documents is worth a try.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Gilmore" <m_b_gilmore at yahoo.com>
To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 4:47 PM
Subject: [blindlaw] 508 compliance clone?


Hi everybody,

I've been thinking about 508 compliance and maybe something NFB could push 
at the state level. I love how pretty much any document has to be 
508-compliant on federal web sites (and I'm guessing state as well. Anyone 
know?) This is nice when you're trying to view a PDF. Unfortunately, there's 
a lot of web sites 9Barbri is one of them) who scan their PDF's onto the web 
site which JAWS will tell you the document is empty. So, we print the 
document out so we can read it. Has anyone thought of some kind of 
legislation or working with various web sites that post PDF's by scanning 
them in to make them 508 compliant, but on the private level? (What I mean 
is get a private 508 compliant law.)

I bring this up because as a federal worker, I've been e-mailed PDF's that 
have been scanned in and I've had to ask for the original Word document so I 
could read it. OF course, every PDF form they put up there is 508-compliant 
before it's released. (A couple of weeks ago, there was something that 
wasn't compliant--it was for internal office use. I was able to obtain the 
Word version and one of the supervisors sent the PDF to the tech folks and 
told them to make it 508 compliant. That was nice of her, but we can't 
always expect there to be the Word version still lying around or for folks 
to not scan the document into Adobe.)

Any thoughts?

Mike



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