Re: Blind user complaining on Adobe web site

2021-05-06 Thread Greg Knittl
When I want to read the pdf file I converting it to a text file have fun and be free ali miracle على 4/27/2021 ‫11:34 AM، كتب Greg Knittl: fyi. pdf accessibility issues may be bigger than just XFA... https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/anyone-know-how-a-blind-person-is-supposed-to-create-or-edi

Re: Blind user complaining on Adobe web site

2021-04-29 Thread Greg Knittl
to design an accessible UI that works w/ everything, and then focus on making it better I don't know what the solution is, I just wish there was one. ex-Gooserider -- Arthur Torrey - --- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:34:30 -0400 From: Greg Knittl To: Jean Louis Cc: l

Re: Overlap between the Software Freedom movement and the Right to Repair?

2021-04-29 Thread Greg Knittl
Hi Lars, The various GNU licences rely on copyright. I'm not sure if this is just trying to make the best of a bad situation by hacking copyright into it's opposite or whether belief in copyright is intrinsic to Software Freedom. Whatever the Software Freedom take is, I'm very much in

Blind user complaining on Adobe web site

2021-04-27 Thread Greg Knittl
fyi. pdf accessibility issues may be bigger than just XFA... https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/anyone-know-how-a-blind-person-is-supposed-to-create-or-edit-a-pdf-when-acrobat-isn-t-screen-reader/m-p/10186392?search-action-id=167355598977=10186392 I see enormous convergence of interest

Re: Fwd: Re: Adobe Reader 10

2021-04-22 Thread Greg Knittl
readers at all on any platform... thanks, Greg On 2021-04-20 11:42 a.m., Jean Louis wrote: * Greg Knittl [2021-03-21 22:27]: Hi Jean Louis, This is generic problem across at least 2 Ontario ministries. I have also encountered XFA forms for the Health Ministry Assistive Devices Program. I don't

Re: Fwd: Re: Adobe Reader 10

2021-03-21 Thread Greg Knittl
Hi Jean Louis, This is generic problem across at least 2 Ontario ministries. I have also encountered XFA forms for the Health Ministry Assistive Devices Program. I don't know exactly where to send the complaint. 1. start with https://www.ontario.ca/feedback/contact-us to find the right

Fwd: Re: Adobe Reader 10

2021-03-21 Thread Greg Knittl
Hi All, There may be a couple of legal angles to force Ontario to act: 1/ There may be a legal requirement for Ontario to support people with disabilities - i.e. to support screen reader software. Does anyone know? Does anyone know if there are any screen readers for XFA on any operating

Re: Adobe Reader 10 - paper form solution

2021-03-20 Thread Greg Knittl
run into this with other Ontario forms as well. thanks, Greg On 2021-03-20 1:05 p.m., Jean Louis wrote: * Greg Knittl [2021-03-20 16:12]: Hi Leland, GIMP 2.10.22 will not load this XFA pdf either. I use the same approach of converting the PDF to image and writing on the image. In this case

Re: Adobe Reader 10 - paper form solution

2021-03-20 Thread Greg Knittl
edly huge) final PDF. A second, similar, alternative is to import it into InkScape. Since InkScape uses vector graphics the resulting PDFs are much smaller, but I find it more cumbersome and time consuming to use. Trade-offs, trade-offs. :^| Just my $0.02 USD. Cheers Leland On Fri, Mar 19, 2021

Adobe Reader 10 - paper form solution

2021-03-19 Thread Greg Knittl
Hi All, thanks for all the comments, especially on standards. The Ontario Ministry of Finance will send me paper forms. I doubt I would get very far complaining to the Ombudsman unless I was absolutely blocked from filing so this is probably the end of the line for my complaint with Ontario.

Re: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Adobe Reader 10

2021-03-17 Thread Greg Knittl
wearing my 2020 Libre Planet shirt :-) -Marcus On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, at 9:31 AM, Greg Knittl wrote: Hi, John suggested okular in his email below. It produces the same result, but it does manage to put out an error message that says: "This document has XFA

Fwd: Fwd: Re: Adobe Reader 10

2021-03-17 Thread Greg Knittl
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 10:13:02 -0400 From: John Scott To: Greg Knittl For some reason my email didn't make it to the mailing list (looking at the archives it seems it's not just me), so here's my response as an attachment. --- Begin Message --- On Wed, 2021-03-17 at 07:57 -0400, Greg Kn

Fwd: Re: Adobe Reader 10

2021-03-17 Thread Greg Knittl
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:03:46 -0500 From: Stephen Paul Weber To: Greg Knittl CC: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org Evince won't handle it. Any suggestions for how to process on Linux? What errors do you get from Evince? ___ libreplanet-discuss ma

Adobe Reader 10

2021-03-17 Thread Greg Knittl
Hi All, Some Ontario Government forms require Adobe Reader 10 which I can't find for Linux. I'm trying to obtain paper versions, although they don't make that obvious either. Evince won't handle it. Any suggestions for how to process on Linux? thanks, Greg p.s. I had previously posted for

Re: How do you upon the very first plug in of a new computer not activate any of the MicroSoft?

2020-06-14 Thread Greg Knittl
Hi Don, I would pull out the hard drive and replace it with another one. This may void your hardware warranty on a laptop, for example. Microsoft may be entangled in the BIOS/boot chain but if haven't noticed that in my experience. thanks, Greg On 2020-06-14 1:00 p.m., Don Saklad wrote: a)

Online banking support for Linux?

2020-06-12 Thread Greg Knittl
Hi All, I'm in Ontario, Canada. My credit union, Meridian, only supports Microsoft Windows and Max OS X for online banking. https://www.meridiancu.ca/About-Meridian/Privacy-and-Security.aspx under browser requirements. I doubt they have any legal or regulatory obligation to support Linux -

[libreplanet-discuss] free and libre tax software

2017-03-24 Thread Greg Knittl
Hi, I'm interested in writing free and libre income tax software for Canada. https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Ontario/FLCTPSP Technically it's a challenge because of the shear quantity of calculations. It has to be easy for different people to add and maintain different pieces