This will likely only solve the problem of not needing the Acrobat
Accessibility plugin.  Meaningful improvements in the readability of PDF
files are likely going to require document authors to incorporate more
structural information into the document before converting to PDF.  Given
that Adobe still bills Acrobat as an electronic piece of paper, convincing
people to include structural information is likely going to be a large hurtle.

At 04:57 PM 7/17/00 -0700, you wrote:
>We can only hope that the next version of acrobat Reader will do as they
>have promised and incorporate MsAA so that JFW and WindowEyes will be able
>to navigate the files as they now navigate web pages; but whether this will
>solve some of the problems remains to be seen.  i have read some books very
>successfully with acrobat Reader and the plug-in but they were e-books which
>were set up in a friendlier way to begin with.
>
>
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