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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Oct 24, 2012 7:26AM

Hi

I have a request from my company to do an accessibility assessment of pdfs
on their sites.

Since we are an engineering division only do technical accessibility and
not content accessibility, We do not have anything to do with PDFs, videos
or other content related items. There may be 100 or more pdfs on each
site... some may be recent, some old.

Question1: is there any software that could globally look at all the pdfs
on the site or page globally and identify those which are not tagged
correctly. Some may go back before Office 2007.

Question2: Three years ago the site added a dynamic pdf form. This is xml
database driven form, with little static content. I was told at the time,
there was no way to get proper tags on it. Does anyone know if there has
been a change.

Thanks,

Nancy