Re: pdf forms from Social Security

[Janina Sajka <janina afb net>]

This is a clear cut 508 violation, in my view. There is no good 
accessibility to forms in PDF on any platform, including Microsoft 
Windows.


On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> does anybody know whether or not there is a way to read the pdf forms on the
> social security site? I tried pdftotext and they did not come out legible.
> I also tried using google; the text version link got me a 'not found" and
> the html link (I put in the url for a particular form) got me the same
> illegible form that I got when trying to use pdftotext.
> For an example, one of the forms i tried to access was
> http://www.ssa.gov/online/ssa-632.pdf
> Also,
> is there any way to print these files to a printer short of finding somebody
> with
> a Windows system to do it?
> SSA provides just about nothing as far as their forms in accessible format, and
> if they are going to
> say their website provides that, their pdf files certainly don't appear to be
> accessible to me. Ironically, the instructions for the forms are right on the
> website, but the explanation is such that you have to be able to look at the
> form to understand the instructions.
> 
> Cheryl
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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