From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22269 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brooks Moses Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Accessibility Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 22:11:07 -0700 Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20050902220834.0309d360@cits1.stanford.edu> References: <1CC553DC-1C38-11DA-A65D-001124338712@northcoast.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125724332 4461 80.91.229.2 (3 Sep 2005 05:12:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 05:12:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Sep 03 07:12:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBQJl-0000B4-Lo for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:11:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E9A112821; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 07:11:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30703-03; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 07:11:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 987AD127FF; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 07:11:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1FCC127FF for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 07:11:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30712-07 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 07:11:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp2.Stanford.EDU (smtp2.Stanford.EDU [171.67.16.125]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88293127C7 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 07:11:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mindolluin.stanford.edu (DNab42a420.Stanford.EDU [171.66.164.32]) by smtp2.Stanford.EDU (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j835BJ0U002292; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 22:11:29 -0700 X-Sender: brooks@cits1.stanford.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users , Context Mailing List List In-Reply-To: <1CC553DC-1C38-11DA-A65D-001124338712@northcoast.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:22269 Archived-At: At 10:03 PM 9/2/2005, David Arnold wrote: >We got the note below from our college president today. What does anyone >know about making context and pdf accessible to student with vision problems? I don't know that much offhand. However, with web pages, one of the simpler ways of testing compatibility with screen-readers is using lynx to view the file; I'd think that using one of the pdf-to-text converters on the pdf file would do about the same for .pdf files. It's not a perfect test by any means, but it's a good first start. Given that the TeX->PDF->text pathway is often recommended for getting text out of TeX documents, I suspect it's likely to be reasonably ok. - Brooks