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<div>May interest Cafe readers who work on the design of</div>
<div>financial statements:</div>
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<div>> "Visually impaired customers of American
Express say<br>
> they can no longer read their credit card
statements<br>
> online.<br>
> <br>
> "In December Amex changed its format for UK
statements<br>
> from HTML to Portable Document Format or PDF.<br>
> <br>
> "However, it failed to encode the new PDF
documents so<br>
> they could be read by "screen readers,"
special<br>
> software used by blind or partially sighted
people.</div>
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<div>Story in full at the BBC News website:</div>
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/moneybox/7332216.stm</font></div
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<div>Conrad</div>
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