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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Aug 1, 2011 2:03PM

Hi Jeni,

How will the handouts and the data from the posters be made
accessible for print-impaired students in the class?

Making the PDFs accessible may be the easiest option...

Patrick

At 10:52 AM 8/1/2011, McDonald, Jennifer wrote:
>I am trying to answer a question for a client regarding the extent of
>Section 508's requirement for making PDF files accessible. This client
>has files posted in PDF and PPT format that are meant to be used as
>materials to hand out in a classroom environment to facilitate the
>presentation, and posters to hang promoting the presentation. So we
>have graphic-heavy pdf files of a printable poster - the intent is that
>the person to download the poster, print it and hang it on the wall. Yet
>these materials are offered to the public and linked to on the website.
>Would descriptive text associated with the file before it's download
>satisfy the requirement?
>
>Jeni