Amar, One issue is about Tamil Unicode fonts (even Arial Unicode) not rendering properly when saving from a word document to a PDF.
Govt is being wary about sharing policy documents as word document because "word can be edited and misused whereas PDF can't." Apparently there is a known issue <https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1475438> with some regional language unicode and PDF rendering. Vaishnavi On Thu 5 Sep, 2019, 7:57 AM Amar Jain, <amarj...@amarjain.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Considering the pain of blind professionals and students, some of us have > decided to work with Adobe and Vispero to find out ways in which PDFs can > be made better for people with blindness. And I am doing everything > possible to get this to Shantanu’s (CEO of Adobe) attention, so that the > bottlenecks between business, legal, compliance and development can be > adressed. The good thing is that the head of accessibility at Adobe and > Vispero have been very receptive. > > While the major problem of inaccessibility of PDF is because a lot of > things are dependent on authors for ensuring accessibility, but this > approach itself needs a relook. Changing millions of minds is difficult, > but creating ways to empower millions is certainly possible and the > technologies meant to assist people with disabilities is a real example of > this. > > Please send me the list of issues, steps to reproduce, and possible > solutions (if any) on: amarj...@amarjain.com > > With hopes for a more accessible Adobe tomorrow, > Amar Jain > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of > the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > > Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
