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Re: high-volume PDF and Word doc remediation

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From: Monir ElRayes
Date: Jul 17, 2013 6:13PM

Hi Deborah, You may want to consider CommonLook - Office
(http://www.commonlook.com/CommonLook-office) which will create accessible
PDF right from Word and PowerPoint. It has come a long way since you saw
the pre-release version a few years back.

Best Regards,
Monir ElRayes
Founder / Director
NetCentric Technologies 
Creator of the CommonLook Suite of Tools
www.commonlook.com
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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


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