[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 28578] New: accessibility of pdf document using pdftohtml

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28578

           Summary: accessibility of pdf document using pdftohtml
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: leenagour at gmail.com


For a person with perfect vision, no issues in reading pdfcontent in html
format using pdftohtml. But to ensure that the complex html format is as much
as similar to pdf document displayed using any document viewer and to make html
format more accessible and usable by a blind person, we found that following
issues need to be resolved. If a blind person reads file.html then following
are some issues :

   1. Because file.html uses frameset/frame so orca is not able to shift
control from 1 frame to another. it shifted after reading full content of one
frame (with tab). Normal person can shift from frame to frame with the help of
mouse, but with tab it is not possible to skip no. of tabs.
   2. If a blind person want to read/shift to another page, it opens in new
tab, it will be confusing for her/him to handle no of tabs (1 for each page).
   3.Some more issues related with content format are:
     a)Header and footer of page are not accessible to screen reader
     b)Some character combinations are displayed as garbage like 'ft', 'tt' 
     c)Content in table format is displayed properly but not accessible to
screen reader.

Solution : Using pdftohtml one single html connecting to all pages can be
generated.

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