[vicsireland] Re: Accessible Local Authority forms
- From: "Cearbhall O'Meadhra" <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:21:54 -0000
I agree with you, Barry.
Agencies seem to prefer PDF for all documents. I suppose it guarantees that
the layout is unchanged when it leaves them and appears on the target OS.
I wonder how we might change the Local Auths to see it our way? Any ideas?
All the best,
Cearbhall
T: +353 (0)1 2864623 m: 08333 23487 E: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barry McMullin
Sent: 28 January 2011 18:43
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Accessible Local Authority forms
Hi Cearbhall -
This is probably not what the council or Arts office want to
hear, but the "right" way to do this is to use HTML forms
(conforming, of course, to the applicable HTML accessibility
guidelines). That would give far and away the widest spectrum
accessibility that is practical today. (They may say they don't
have the technical capability or technical staff to do this: but
that's exactly how they got into the problem in the first place.
It is not any easier to do this with Word or PDF - it just seems
more "familiar" to them, but they clearly lack the skills there
also. If they are in the business of interacting with the public
via forms at all, then they need to be in the business of
interacting via accessible forms: which means they have to
acquire or upskill staff with the necessary skills - so that
might as well be "accessible HTML form" skills rather than
"accessible Word or PDF form" skills because they will then get a
good deal more bang for the bucks they will have to spend
anyway...)
Just my 2c worth.
- Barry.
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