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June 2010 Newsletter
### Edited by Joel Obuchowski
Articles and ideas for future newsletters? Please e-mail them to Joel Obuchowski jobuchow@ins.state.ny.us and Estelle Council ecouncil@parole.state.ny.us
NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING
- Thursday, June 10, 2010, from 2:30pm to 4pm.
- Forum Offices, 24 Aviation Road, Colonie
- If you are unable to attend in person, and wish to participate via teleconference, here's the call-in information:
- Phone #: 888-387-8686
- Conference ID: 4435001#
Directions? Please e-mail Joel Obuchowski jobuchow@ins.state.ny.us or Estelle Council ecouncil@parole.state.ny.us
AGENDA
- Accessibility Policy Overview - Marilyn Cordell, OCIO/OFT
- OCIO/OFT updates
- Jeff Bennett (testimonial)
- 508 New Draft - Analysis and Comments
- Recent Consultations
- Future Events/Consultations
- Summer Meeting Schedule
- 2009 - 2010 Initiatives/Forum Planning meeting in July
UPCOMING EVENTS
More to come in the Fall.
FEATURE ARTICLE
"Adobe Update on Fillable Form Limitations"
by Debi Orton, GOER
At our "Creating Accessible PDFs" session, a question came up regarding a limit on the number of Acrobat fillable forms that can be saved. Here is more information on that limitation, from the Adobe web site:
Limitations on saving filled-in forms locally
Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Pro Extended each allow Adobe Reader 8 or later users to fill in and save PDF forms locally. The use of the Reader Extensions capability for local saving of PDF forms (called extended documents) is limited in two ways:
1. Number of deployed extended documents
An Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Pro, or Acrobat Pro Extended customer can send an extended document to an unlimited number of recipients for them to fill in. For example, an Acrobat customer can post an empty form template on a web page that allows users to fill in and save PDF forms locally. An unlimited number of people can access the template. However, the Acrobat customer can collect only 500 responses from the filled-in form. This limitation includes both hardcopy (paper form submission) and electronic representations of the filled-in form.
2. Number of recipients of the extended document
An Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Pro, or Acrobat Pro Extended customer can send an extended document to no more than 500 unique recipients. For example, an Acrobat customer belongs to an organization with 500 people or less. The Acrobat customer can send an unlimited number of copies of the extended document to those 500 recipients and collect unlimited responses from the filled-in form.
Both limitations apply per entity/company, and multiple users in an entity cannot abuse this feature. Obtaining additional licenses to use Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Pro Extended does not increase the above restrictions. For example, five Acrobat Standard 9 users in a company cannot send out the same extended document to receive and extract data collectively more than 500 times.
Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Pro Extended include technology that can enable PDF documents with certain features by using a digital credential. This credential is located within the Software ("Key"). You agree not to access, attempt to access, control, disable, remove, distribute the Key for any purpose.
You can find this article in the help library on the Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional web site: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Standard/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7e0d.w.html
RECENT NEWS
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
His Alertbox for May 24 is now online at: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/utest-observers.html
Summary: Besides usability specialists, all design team members should observe usability. It's also good to invite executives. Although biased conclusions are possible, they're far outweighed by the benefits of increased buy-in and empathy.
RESOURCES
provided by Mike Hritcko, NYS Insurance Fund
"A Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary"
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=CommunicationsTechnologyandtheInternet
"H.R. 3101: Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009"
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3101
"Successful Senate Hearing on ADA & Technology: Markey says Industry Exaggerates Costs of Accessibility"
http://www.coataccess.org/node/9313
provided by Debi Orton, GOER
"Annual Disability Statistics Compendium"
http://disabilitycompendium.org/