On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:03:48 +0200, Michal Hocko <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:10:10PM +0200, Armony ALTINIER ????????? > wrote: >> Hi! > > Hey, > >> >> My name is Armony, I am French and I coordinate the Workgroup >> "*Accessibility >> and Free Software*"of the association "April <http://www.april.org/en>", >> French advocacy association devoted to promote and protect Free/Libre >> Software in France (5300 members). >> >> The goal of the Workgroup is to sensitize people about making free >> software >> accessible to everyone, especially disabled people. > > This is really important to do and it is really nice that somebody takes > care about that in an organized form. Free software is rather behind in > this direction. > >> >> We are trying to create accessible documents, and we noticed that only >> Acrobat Professional has a function for adding accessibility tags to PDF >> documents (see >> http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/pdfs/acro6_pg_ue.pdf). > > This is not implemented in the current PDFedit version and I don't know > about any activity in that direction. On the other hand, PDFedit and its > core library enable working with a rather low-level PDF data structure > so it might be possible to add such a functionality. > > Unfortunately, I don't think that the current PDFedit team (which > consists only from 3 people - working only occasionally) would be able > to get to this any soon. Our TODO list is really long and the time is > not on our side. Nevertheless, this might be an interesting project for > somebody from outside and I am quite sure that we will help with > consulting. I am willing to implement it as soon as somebody agrees to add it to our/someone's GUI which can be a problem. Nevertheless, if you think that a command line version would be enough (I do not see how though) I will do it. /jozef > >> >> I wondering if you were working on it? Or maybe you know another way of >> tagging a PDF document to make it accessible? It's a really big gap for >> Accessibility and Free Software. >> >> Thanks by advance for your answer. >> Cheers, >> Armony > > Best regards > >> >> *Armony ALTINIER ?????????* >> Directrice d'ACS Horizons >> Consultante Chine et accessibilit?? du Web >> ACS Horizons - Le meilleur de la Chine et du Web : conseil, cr??ation, >> formation >> >> *Bureau :* +33 (0) 178 178 855 >> *Mobile :* +33 (0) 668 897 751 >> *Fax :* +33 (0) 170 248 941 >> >> *Email :* [email protected] >> >> *Site pro. :* acs-horizons.fr <http://www.acs-horizons.fr> >> *Blog perso :* armonyaltinier.fr <http://www.armonyaltinier.fr> >> >> *ACS Horizons* <http://www.acs-horizons.fr> >> 2, esplanade de la Gare >> Immeuble ACCET >> 95110 Sannois, France ?????? > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Pdfedit-support mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Pdfedit-support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support
