Re: [SEC508] Vendor suggestions?

[Loretta Guarino Reid <lguarino@adobe.com>]

Kristin,
  This sort of content is definitely a challenge! I'd just like to see 
feedback given to the vendors of the authoring tools that it is important for 
them to generate accessible output.

        Loretta

> 
> Loretta,
> 
> Actually we're the ones who create the PDFs (mostly) from various source
> documents that the content providers give us.  The problem is that it is
> not currently possible to tag the PDFs to make the following kinds of
> complex formatting accessible:
> 
>    charts
>    complex data tables
>    greek symbols embedded in text
>    economic equations
> 
> But even if it were, we still don't have the human resources available to
> do so within the time constraints we operate under.
> 
> So we're looking for a vendor to whom we can give the source documents, who
> would then create compliant HTML for us that we would then publish along
> with the PDF version.
> 
> Kristin Bishop
> Information Systems Analyst
> Federal Reserve Board
> 202-736-5628
>