Well, as I said in my reply to Alan, I would be surprised if any of
our PPTs are compliant.
I admit I have only just started looking at this in any depth because
it only cropped up when I casually mentioned that I was using PDFs.
Ironically to increase accessibility (in the general sense) as I have
students using Macs and Linux and PDFs seem a more universal option.
I have just spoken to Adobe and the Linux, Mac and Windows version of
Acrobat Reader have the accessibility features. There are PDF
specialist viewers available for Linux and Windows, but not the Mac
apparently, which seems odd.
However, it seems that the main file format for accessibility is
HTML, but that isn't being promoted locally.
I fully agree that just converting a PDF to PPT will make it no more
accessible, except for the argument that there are specialist
accessibility viewers for PPTs, but not for PDFs. But Adobe don't
seem to agree with this.
I am now completely confused by it all, but cannot believe that a PDF/
HTML solution can be less accessible than PPT. But currently I am
under pressure to go back to producing PPTs.
Graham
On 27 Feb 2008, at 16:13, Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote:
I agree completly with Alan : most of the PowerPoints aren't
compliant ( PowerPoint don't enforce the tagging of the images ...).
I understand that a converter can be a solution to convince
somebody, but it is a false one because I doubt the converted PDF
will be more compliant than the original one.
My point is : this accessibility issue is a way to force a
commercial software upon us. Don't use LaTeX or PDF, they aren't
accessible !
We must find a way to create compliant documents with our tools
(LyX, LaTeX, PDF ...).
I don't think it is so difficult.
Siegfried.
