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Audit report on Aus Government’s accessibility raises RTF Vs ODF debate

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 1, 2009

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“A recent audit of government documents found there is
room for improvement in making government documents accessible. The
ANAO is suggesting that the government uses RTF or HTML instead of
PDF formats to make its documents more accessible online, but Linux
users say better still would be to opt for Open Document Format
(ODF).

“The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) report, The Online
Availability of Government Entities’ Documents Tabled in the
Australian Parliament, examined the prevalence, discoverability and
accessibility of parliamentary documents published online.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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