Tuesday, January 27, 2009

eLearning Update 01/27/2009

  • The Portable Document Format (PDF) developed by Adobe can be made accessible, but it very much depends on how the original document is designed. If it is a poster created in a publishing application, scanned or saved from a Word document and locked down for copyright reasons then saved as PDF, it is liable to act in the same way as a picture. This means the text cannot be read by a screen reader or adapted for easier reading. It is appreciated that the concept of the PDF is to ensure that printed or saved versions of a document remain as the author intends, but there are ways to help the reader who uses assistive technologies or requires different formats of the text and graphics.

    tags: accessibility, lexdis, adobe, acrobat, pdf, technology, elearning, technique, advice, NTUEDU, assistivetechnology


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