Google does a bit better job presenting pdf's as text or html that the
onine conversion tools (though even those are better than they used to
be...) So if you can get the pdf to come up in a search, you can at least
read most of it.

Vikki Stefans, M.D., pediatric physiatrist (rehab doc for kids) at UAMS
and Arkansas Children's Hospital.  Working Mom of Sarah T. and Michael C.,
and wife of Henry Stefans, travel agent extraordinaire.  Every mom is a
working mom!- OK, dads too. Other address: [log in to unmask]

On Thu, 2 May 2002, John Gardner wrote:

> I have been insisting for several years that in order to be really
> accessible, a PDF page needs to be accompanied by a HTML page.  A number of
> state agencies in Oregon now do this just to keep me from hassling
> them.  I'd be delighted if that could become a recommendation made by some
> authoritative body.  The AFB paper implicitly does make that
> recommendation, so maybe that's enough.