RE: CF and Accessible PDF generation

[Sandra Clark]

Right now any dynamic document generation for PDF will not support the
tagged format (which is necessary to make accessible).  

I've talked to Adobe til I'm blue in the face.  Maybe some others saying the
same thing will help.

Historically, Macromedia used 3rd party libraries to create PDF's via
CFDocument and the report generator.  Since Adobe bought Macromedia, they
can use their libraries and the tagged PDF format in CF, but they haven't
done the work to change out the libraries.  It would be a huge boon,
especially to government clients (who are not happy when I tell them that
dynamically generated PDF's cannot be made accessible).


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-Original Message-
From: R Knutson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:58 PM
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Subject: Re: CF and Accessible PDF generation

Are there any good resource that discuss the hows and whys of making PDF 
documents created by ColdFusion features such as cfdocument... and 
cfreport... to be as accessible as possible.  How one sets the 
language meta data, how one creates 'taged' pdf files, ect.

I guess you did not an answer on this.  It seems pretty silly of Adobe to
give us a great tag but leave it crippled.  These days, there is simply no
excuse for inaccessible web pages, pdfs, or docs.

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Re: CF and Accessible PDF generation

[R Knutson]

Are there any good resource that discuss the hows and whys of making PDF 
documents created by ColdFusion features such as cfdocument... and 
cfreport... to be as accessible as possible.  How one sets the 
language meta data, how one creates 'taged' pdf files, ect.

I guess you did not an answer on this.  It seems pretty silly of Adobe to give 
us a great tag but leave it crippled.  These days, there is simply no excuse 
for inaccessible web pages, pdfs, or docs.

 -- remaining flex-free until it is accessible too 

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Re: CF and Accessible PDF generation

[Jochem van Dieten]

Ian Skinner wrote:
 Are there any good resource that discuss the hows and whys of making PDF 
 documents created by ColdFusion features such as cfdocument... and 
 cfreport... to be as accessible as possible.

I discussed this with somebody from Adobe and the guy who wrote the 
official standard of the Dutch government for accessible PDF last month 
and the consensus was 'use another tool'.

Jochem

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