[xep-support] Accessibity Mode and Spaces

Dave Pawson davep at dpawson.co.uk
Thu Nov 3 08:56:14 PST 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:32 -0800, Steve Anderson wrote:
> Back in June, Louis Amdur <LAmdur at symantec.com> posted
> (http://www.renderx.net/lists/xep-support/3600.html) an email about
> accessibility mode.  He found that "...the resulting documents have no
> space between the words. The PDFs have spaces between words ...".
> 
> I've run into the same thing, only even though the PDF appears to have
> spaces, if you select the text and paste into something else, no
> spaces are included. Screen readers also try to read it without
> spaces.
> 
> If I disable accessibility mode, the spaces come back.
> 
> Any tips on how to get spaces and accessible PDFs with xep?

I hope there is an answer to this?

Accessible (via AT tools) pdf is rising on the 
Access Technology front, as the reputation of Adobe
hinges on its attempts to persuade us that it *is*
accessible.

RenderX? Any comments please?

TIA DaveP


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