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From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net
Date: Jul 17, 2013 12:50PM

Hello, all,

My department is dealing with an influx of thousands of
pre-existing word docs and PDFs (mostly word docs) which we need
to change into PDF/A. I'd like to do accessibility remediation on
the documents as part of that process, but that wasn't made part
of the original budget. What's the cheapest way to do at least an
adequate job, if not a great one? I can make sure the people
responsible for turning the word into PDF know at least to enable
the accessibility options, but that won't help much if the word
isn't styled.

For future grant writing, does anyone have a good standard for
the cost of remediating a given number of Word or PDF documents
to make them accessible? I'd like to write this into future
grants so we don't run up against this again.

Thanks very much,

Deborah Kaplan
Accessibility Team Co-Lead
Dreamwith Studios