FW: [chapter-delegates] Draft ISOC strategic operating plan (redux)

Mike Todd MikeTodd at miketodd.com
Sun Mar 6 18:53:22 PST 2005


James,

The RTF (Rich Text Format) option supported by many word processing programs
such as MS Word, Open Office, Word Perfect, etc. can generally be converted
to text suitable for display on most systems and also for screen reading by
most of the screen readers for the blind.  Adobe also offers a service to
the blind in which they will accept an uploaded file and will return it in
text format.  That means to me that they (Adobe) have a suitable conversion
utility which I would love to see released to the Open Source community...

Mike Todd
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James M Galvin" <galvin at elistx.com>
To: "Mike Todd" <MikeTodd at miketodd.com>; <chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: FW: [chapter-delegates] Draft ISOC strategic operating plan
(redux)


Mike,

Thank you for your comment about meeting the needs of blind readers.
While I do have a preference for text, when "format" is important I
prefer PDF.

Are you aware of any tools that facilitate "formatting" with text?

Jim



--On Saturday, March 05, 2005 4:29 PM -0800 Mike Todd
<MikeTodd at miketodd.com> wrote:

> James,
>
> Just in case no one else mentioned it to you, this latest version did
> not work either.
>
> In addition to the conversion problems, PDF files are not very friendly
> for blind folk who have to use conversion utilities to dig out the text
> so their screen readers can read them the file.  PDF documents do not
> resolve either completely or in any semblance of the text you see on
> the screen.
>
> Just a note for future reference.
>
> Text messages are the best way to communicate via email, if your
> purpose is to convey words to the other party.
>
> Mike Todd
> President, Mike Todd Associates - www.MikeTodd.com
> Supporting the Digital Coast
>
> President, Internet Society Los Angeles Chapter - www.ISOC-LA.org




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