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Re: PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC) vs. Adobe Acrobat Pro XI full check

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From: Trafford, Logan
Date: Mar 14, 2014 5:58AM

Hey Todd.

Just letting you know, we've invested significantly in the CommonLook PDF product to help ensure PDF accessibility. While it currently only checks against 508, the new release coming within a couple of months will be checking against WCAG and PDF U/A as well. There's less of a learning curve for staff, as opposed to trying to figure out the meaning of some of the "errors" that come up from both Acrobat and/or PAC. In my opinion, it makes the remediation process simpler for those who don't fully understand WCAG or other standards.

Logan Trafford
Intermediate Web Developer (WCAG Compliance)
City of Ottawa (Canada)
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC) vs. Adobe Acrobat Pro XI full check

Thank you for your response Lucia.

While I agree with you, the reason we are creating accessible PDFs is because that is how the targeted audience for these documents consume these documents. We prefer not to create HTML version just to be able to post the non-accessible PDF version.

Todd.