Steve Jacobson - IT Order Proc. In reading the notes from Mr. Raman regarding the PDF Document format and the conversion of Government documents, I find that I am not entirely clear on a couple of points. In fact, it seems to me that there may be two issues here rather than one. For example, IRS tax forms display data in a number of ways, as do most forms.
Most data is displayed on lines with a label at the left and a value at the right.
However, there can be more than one set of labels and values on one physical line. These forms also contain check boxes and information boxes where information such as employer's name and address occupy multiple lines with a descriptive label at the top. This is precisely part of what is done by income tax software. However, from my experience this year, tax software screens can be as bad as the forms. Yet, to my knowledge, we have never said that accessibility to documents must include reformatting them into a more useful format.