Re: [orca-list] PDF-files and Orca

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Steve and Jason:

The OO File Export to PDF menu includes a checkbox for including PDF
tags. I have not tested its results.

You might also find the following two web pages helpful:

http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/#content

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office-accessibility

Janina

Jason White writes:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:04:07PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
>  
> > Thanks for the referral; it was interesting reading.  It's a bit dated
> > but a quick intro to the Open Office.org product.  I've had little
> > practice with it so far but looked promising from what I've seen so
> > far.  I played with a MS Word originated document as well as an excel
> > spreadsheet and they both came and read quite snappily.  It sounds
> > like it's a lot of work to get an HTML out of OOo and get it all
> > cleaned up but I recall that MS Word does the same thing; they try and
> > include so much mark-up - even the stuff that is unnecessary given
> > what we want or need in an HTML document.
>
> I just write my documents in LaTeX and use tex4ht to produce HTML (or XHTML)
> versions. Using pdflatex I can create what I am reliably informed are
> beautifully typeset PDF files that can be displayed on screen or printed. When
> posting to my Web site, I simply upload both the HTML and the PDF files, which
> are linked from an HTML page, so that readers can choose the format which they
> prefer.
>
> There are also various tools that can produce slides from LaTeX or XHTML
> sources. When next I need to give a presentation with slides, perhaps Firefox
> 3 with Orca and a series of HTML files, one per slide, would be the most
> convenient solution, using a braille display to navigate through the slides
> during the presentation.
>
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