PDF accessibility (wasRe: N:Vision CFL's)

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert L Bass" <no-sales-spam@bassburglaralarms> wrote in message

> I'm nearly blind in one eye and nearsighted
> in the other.  One of the things I like about
> PDF documents is that I can easily enlarge
> text and images simulaneously so I can
> read fine print.  Web browsers allow limited
> text resizing, but images and other elements
> usually don't flow with the text and often
> obscure portions of it.

I am curious to know why your experience with PDF's seems so positive
compared to the sight impaired people I know (including me) who quite
literally despise PDFs (at least when compared to equivalent HTML documents
viewed on a normal PC monitor side by side with or without the use of reader
software or other adaptive devices*).  The American Foundation for the Blind
doesn't quite despise them, but this article answers most of your questions
about why the sight impaired, though obviously not you, prefer HTML to PDF:

http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw060604

What size and type of display and what resolution settings are you using?

--
Bobby G.

*ridiculously redundant explanation supplied for those so aptly described
at:

http://www.english-test.net/stories/42/index.html