Kelly,

  Considerable work has gone into improving Acrobat's ability to present the
content in logical order. The support is direct via MSAA, rather than via
translation to HTML, and the current translation tools don't reflect these
improvements. When the Acrobat 5.0 Reader is available, I hope you'll find
AccessGuide.pdf easier to read.

        Loretta

> Will the quality of translation be improved with these developments?  For
> example I followed the link you provided and found a file called
> AccessGuide.pdf that says it explains how to create accessible PDF files.
> That material seemed only to be available as a PDF file and when I ran it
> through the existing conversion options, it had the same long and short
> line problems plus strange characters showing up in many locations.  The
> collective result of these problems makes the material less readable.

>
> I'm just curious.  I do view the recent developments as a step forward but
> think the accessible PDF is still going to take a lot of work on the part
> of the person creating the source document.
>