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Is PDF accessible in Australia?
By Roger Hudson, DingoAccess Random thoughts, stories and ideas from Roger Hudson of Web Usability, 21 February 2012. "More than two years ago I wrote about WCAG 2.0 and Accessibility Supported, and my fear that, 'the concept of 'accessibility supported' is not fully understood'. I believe that this 'could put at risk the whole move to improve the accessibility of the web'. I am concerned that mixed-messages relating to the status of PDF as a 'web content technology' is still causing problems within Australia at least..."
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- PDF Techniques for WCAG 2.0
- W3C Working Group Note, 2012. "This Web page lists PDF Techniques from Techniques for WCAG 2.0: Techniques and Failures for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. Technology-specific techniques do not supplant the general techniques: content developers should consider both general techniques and technology-specific techniques as they work toward conformance..."
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- Release of WCAG 2.0 Techniques for PDF
- By Andrew Arch - AGIMO Blog, 12 January 2012. "On 3 January 2012, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) published updated Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, including new techniques for the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Silverlight, and an update to Understanding WCAG 2.0..."
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- World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes
- Version 4.0 - Australian Human Rights Commission, October 2010. "... The purpose of these Advisory Notes is to provide background information about accessibility and legal issues, as well as advice about how web designers and website owners can minimise the possibility of disability discrimination without sacrificing the richness and variety of communication offered by the web and web-based technologies. This new version (version 4.0) includes specific advice about a transition to WCAG 2.0..."
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