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Sonist · 12-04-2010, 06:39 PM

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It's clear you believe those with disabilities should stay at home and not expect to be able to do anything ever again if it involves any change on anyone else's part....[/QUOTE]

Wow! You need to calm down. There is no need to make it personal -- you know very little about me or my beliefs.

All I did is point out that your assertion about PDF being a proprietary format is incorrect, and that the title of this thread is misleading, since it implies that the Australian government is rejecting PDF as a format. Instead, from my cursory reading of it, it seems that there is a recommendation for training government employees about how to prepare PDFs (I wonder what group will be providing such training?) It appears to be an overlong report suggesting a few common-sense approaches which probably should have been readily apparent to anyone but a bureaucrat.

In addition, I was merely suggesting that as in most such cases, there are opportunity costs and common sense needs to apply. Otherwise we end up with examples like San Francisco, which failed to introduce much needed washable public toilets, because disability groups insisted that ALL such facilities were wheelchair-accessible, which was a logistical impossibility.

Cheers.

12-04-2010, 06:39 PM	#27
Sonist Apeist Posts: 2,126 Karma: 381090 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: The sunny part of California Device: Generic virtual reality story-experiential device	[QUOTE=DMSmillie;1250122... It's clear you believe those with disabilities should stay at home and not expect to be able to do anything ever again if it involves any change on anyone else's part....[/QUOTE] Wow! You need to calm down. There is no need to make it personal -- you know very little about me or my beliefs. All I did is point out that your assertion about PDF being a proprietary format is incorrect, and that the title of this thread is misleading, since it implies that the Australian government is rejecting PDF as a format. Instead, from my cursory reading of it, it seems that there is a recommendation for training government employees about how to prepare PDFs (I wonder what group will be providing such training?) It appears to be an overlong report suggesting a few common-sense approaches which probably should have been readily apparent to anyone but a bureaucrat. In addition, I was merely suggesting that as in most such cases, there are opportunity costs and common sense needs to apply. Otherwise we end up with examples like San Francisco, which failed to introduce much needed washable public toilets, because disability groups insisted that ALL such facilities were wheelchair-accessible, which was a logistical impossibility. Cheers. Last edited by Sonist; 12-04-2010 at 06:45 PM.