Excellent step by step article on the AbilityNet site on how to make sure that PDFs created in MS Word 2007 using the free plug-in are accessible:
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webarticle87
Archive for March, 2008
create accessible PDFs from Word 2007
March 10, 2008new accessibility metadata standard a step closer
March 6, 2008A long time coming but it looks like an update to the oft quoted but never (well rarely anyway) used IMS accessibility metadata schema is now very very close. http://www.imsglobal.org/pressreleases/IMSPR-AccessForAll.pdf
braille beer cans in Japan
March 3, 2008According to this article its hard to tell the difference between softdrinks cans and beer cans in Japan. How silly – why don’t they just follow our example and make the beer cans bigger. mind you, Beer vending machines – they’ve got some things better.
