From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpe-144-136-157-34.qld.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.157.34] helo=data.home ident=mail) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHXFs-0001dA-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:40:05 -0500 Received: from geoff (helo=localhost) by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHXFn-0007RM-00 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:39:59 +1000 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 09:39:58 +1000 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Mobile Accessibility X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:40:05 -0000 Hi Cherryl: Like Janina, my main problem with mobile phone manuals is the graphics used to represent buttons on the phones, rather than using words to describe the buttons. As for converting PDF documents, it's been my experience that no single tool will give you the best results. I have a couple of different programs here (pstotext and pdftotext) and it really depends on the PDF file as to which tool does the better job. Not sure about other distributions, but in Debian, pstotext is in the pstotext package and pdftotext is in the xpdf package. One other thing I'd say. The U.S. having section 255 is a good thing. Many other places don't have such laws, but we can benefit from the law in the USA. So, as a non-American, I encourage people to make complaints against these things so that all of us can benefit from accessible documentation. Geoff.