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From: Morin, Gary (NIH/OD) [E]
Date: May 20, 2011 1:15PM

Hi, Karen,

There are a lot of people here who like using watermarks, and we've started getting them into the habit of using Headers and Footers instead for watermark-like information (draft, confidential, etc.), for the ease of reading a document for those individuals with vision impairments but still have usable vision and for the rest of us who are just aging (some more gracefully than others <smile>). And then there are things like page numbers, which Word automatically puts into the Footer.

Any thoughts on how to 'satisfy' everyone?

Have a great weekend all!

Gary M. Morin, Program Analyst
NIH Office of the Chief Information Officer
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WHAT IF THE FIRST QUESTION WE ASKED WAS, "WHAT IS SO UNIQUE ABOUT THIS SITUATION THAT IT JUSTIFIES EXCLUSION? INSTEAD OF, "HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE?"