Re: pdf forms from Social Security

["David Poehlman" <poehlman1 comcast net>]

this is true.  even the best of pdf is only limitted to the latest and
greatest of at.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina afb net>
To: <blinux-list redhat com>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: pdf forms from Social Security


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)

Email: janina afb net Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org



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