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Implementation Review of Adobe PDF Reader 5.0
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Subject: Adobe PDF Reader 5.0
Operating System: Microsoft Windows
Formats: Portable Document Format (PDF)
Date: 21 August 2001
Guidelines: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines ( 31 July Working Draft )
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Reviewer
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Name: Loretta Guarino Reid
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Affliation: Adobe
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Phone:
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E-mail: lguarino@adobe.com
Complete Implementation
Total checkpoints: 32
Very Good Implementation
Total checkpoints: 3
Good Implementation
Total checkpoints: 1
Poor Implementation
Total checkpoints: 1
Not Implementation
Total checkpoints: 18
Not Applicable
Total checkpoints: 35
Not Rated
Total checkpoints: 0
Rating: VG
Comments
- Missing: selection of less than an entire page
Rating: VG
Comments
- Activating and navigating form fields and links is complete
- Missing: keyboard control to bring up form field descriptions; these pop up when the mouse hovers over the form field
Rating: C
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Rating: C
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- I'm unsure how to interpret this checkpoint for Acrobat
- PDF specification
- Handling of abbreviations?
Rating: NA
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Rating: P
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- Possibly NI
- Conditional content available in the Tags panel in Acrobat, but this is not available in Acrobat Reader
- Form field descriptions available via mouse-over
Rating: NA
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- What about time-dependent annotations? e.g. movies; dependency on the annotation handler, like Quicktime
Rating: NA
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- What about time-dependent annotations? dependency on handlers
Rating: NA
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- What about time-dependent annotations?
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NA
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- No notion of background image in PDF
Rating: NA
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- Possibly NI; there is no notion of audio, video, or animated images in PDF. However, annotations can implement such functionality, in which case javascript could invoke it automatically. There is no configuration control in such cases
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NI
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- No way to disable Javascript in the Reader
- Can disable Javascript in Acrobat, but there is no warning of the presence of scripts
Rating: NA
Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NI
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Rating: C
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- Arbitrary scaling of the page is supported
- With TaggedPDf, scaled pages can also be reflowed
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: C
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- No control of background color if text is located over an area not recognized as background
Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: C
Comments
- Use Windows OS volume control
Rating: NA
Comments
Rating: NA
Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
Comments
- Is it possible to cause this from Javascript?
Rating: NA
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- Focus viewport is always on top
Rating: NA
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- Is it possible to open a viewport from Javascript?
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: NI
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- Javascript can cause automatic submission, and Reader has no way to configure to satisfy this checkpoint
Rating: NA
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Rating: NA
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- Viewports can only be closed manually
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: C
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Rating: C
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Rating: C
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- MSAA
- bugs in selection notification?
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: C
Comments
Rating: NA
No Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- I'm not sure how this applies to Acrobat Reader
Rating: C
Comments
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: NA
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- No input configuration supported
Rating: C
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- The PDF Techniques document for WCAG is in development
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: C
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- However, no way to resume focus location after moving focus to a different viewport or to the UI
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: NA
Comments
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- search does not include conditional content
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: VG
Comments
- Table relationship is expressed in logical structure and
exposed via MSAA
- table summary not available
Rating: G
Comments
- content and focus are highlighted, but highlight style is not configurable
Rating: C
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- No hightlight style for visited links and fee links
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: NI
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- Available in Acrobat 5.0 Tags panel?
Rating: NI
No Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- Viewport with current focus is always on top
- Viewport focus highlight can be difficult to see
Rating: C
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Rating: C
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- Menus list keyboard shortcuts and access keys
- Keyboard commands documented in Help document
Rating: NA
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- No author bindings supported
Rating: NA
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- No user bindings supported
Rating: NI
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- No configuration of bindings supported
Rating: C
Comments
- Some of these are not applicable
- "Search for text" brings up dialog
Rating: NI
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- No configuration of bindings supported
Rating: C
No Comments
Rating: C
Comments
- Tagged PDF documentation
- Given the HTML-centric nature of WCAG10, can we still claim conformance?
Rating: C
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- Accessibility section of documentation
Rating: C
Comments
Rating: NA
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- There were no accessibility features in previous versions?
Rating: C
No Comments
Jon Gunderson (Jon Gunderson)
Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)
Last revised: $Date: 2004/03/09 18:53:40 $
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