I have one of those here, but its an image and you can't read anything in it -- but ABBYY FineReader 6 will do ocr on a pdf and they have a form filler although I have not tried it. on Sunday 08/04/2002 Janina Sajka(janina@afb.net) wrote > This is a clear cut 508 violation, in my view. There is no good > accessibility to forms in PDF on any platform, including Microsoft > Windows. > > > On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > > does anybody know whether or not there is a way to read the pdf forms on the > > social security site? I tried pdftotext and they did not come out legible. > > I also tried using google; the text version link got me a 'not found" and > > the html link (I put in the url for a particular form) got me the same > > illegible form that I got when trying to use pdftotext. > > For an example, one of the forms i tried to access was > > http://www.ssa.gov/online/ssa-632.pdf > > Also, > > is there any way to print these files to a printer short of finding somebody > > with > > a Windows system to do it? > > SSA provides just about nothing as far as their forms in accessible format, and > > if they are going to > > say their website provides that, their pdf files certainly don't appear to be > > accessible to me. Ironically, the instructions for the forms are right on the > > website, but the explanation is such that you have to be able to look at the > > form to understand the instructions. > > > > Cheryl > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com