RE: [xep-support] Accessibity Mode and Spaces

Steve/Dave:

I do not see this issue, maybe something else is going on here with
browser/setup/reader version? I have Acrobat 7 Reader and can browse to
this RenderX-generated PDF file (coincidentally this is our VPAT for 508!):

http://www.renderx.com/solutions/508_files/XEP%20VPAT.pdf

Copy/paste from here only shows that the line endings (as expected) have no
spaces, but there are spaces between the words for sure. Screen readers
have no problem with this file either.

Below is a copy-paste directly from this document into this e-mail (note the
line endings do not paste, but the text does with spaces):

**********************************

(a) When software is designed to run on asystem that has a keyboard,
productfunctions shall be executable from akeyboard where the function
itself or theresult of performing a function can bediscerned textually.

************************************

Kevin Brown
RenderX, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xep-support@renderx.com [mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com]
On Behalf Of Dave Pawson
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:56 AM
To: xep-support@renderx.com
Subject: Re: [xep-support] Accessibity Mode and Spaces

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:32 -0800, Steve Anderson wrote:
> Back in June, Louis Amdur <LAmdur@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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