|
DSI's CEO to
chair PDF/Universal Accessibility Standards Committee
Open
to all interested parties, AIIM's PDF/Accessible Standards Committee met on May
17th, 2005 at AIIM's annual Conference and Trade Show in Philadelphia. Present
were representatives of the National Federation for the Blind, as well as a number
of software companies and service organizations, Federal government departments
and other organizations and individuals outside of the United States interested
in PDF accessibility. The
PDF/Accessible specification will be a set of guidelines for creating accessible
PDF. PDF accessibility is highly dependent upon the objects (graphics, text, multimedia,
form fields) present in a PDF file. The specification will describe such components
and the conditions governing their inclusion in a PDF file in order to be considered
accessible. After development and ratification, this Specification will go on
to become a candidate ISO (International Standards Organization) specification. This
Standards Committee is fairly new, with only a few regular meetings to-date. At
the request of Adobe Systems representative Greg Pisocky, the Committee agreed
as its first order of business to elect a Chair to lead the discussion, and delegate
tasks associated with the development of the Standard. DSI CEO Duff Johnson was
elected by a consensus vote. The
second order of business was a name change. PDF/Accessible will in future be known
as PDF/Universal Accessibility.
Visit
the PDF/Universal
Accessibility page on AIIM's website, and get involved!
Duff
Johnson's articles featured in the Best of Planet PDF, Volume 2
Planet
PDF, the industry-leading PDF technology website, has featured articles by DSI's
CEO Duff Johnson since 1998. Duff Johnson has served as Planet PDF's Contributing
Editor for Business and Government since early 2004.
The 2003 release of
the Best of Planet PDF, Volume 1 proved very popular with Planet PDF visitors,
and has been downloaded many times since its first posting. In
June, 2005, Planet PDF released the Best of Planet PDF, Volume 2, a collection
of the best feature content from Planet PDF since 2003. Articles
by Document Solutions' CEO Duff Johnson in this most recent issue of the Best
of Planet PDF include: - Planet
PDF's Dan Shea interviews Duff Johnson on Acrobat 7.0
An introduction to
Accessible PDF - Accessible
PDF: A Strategic Review
- PDF
files can comply with Section 508. Now it's your move!
- What
is tagged PDF?
Check
out Volumes 1 and 2 of the Best of Planet PDF. | 
