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Re: Average time to Remediate PDFs in bulk?

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From: Dona Patrick
Date: Oct 10, 2014 10:41AM

I am asked this question all the time at work. I respond with some of the
same responses that have been provided here and they still say, "Okay
thanks, but how long will it take. We need an LOE for our paperwork..."

So then I usually respond that I can do, on average, 10 to 15 pages an hour
and then figure out about how many pages there are in all and then provide
them with what they are looking for. I always include a disclaimer that if
the files are very complex, misbehave in any way, if I have to write all of
the alt text or if the tables are very complex it will take me more than
what I quoted. I open all of the files to see how many pages are in each
and do a quick scan of what is involved. Sometimes my LOE takes several
hours to write.

Dona

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> wrote:

> > If I was to take a guess at this I¹d say something like: Simple
> documents: .5 an hour Intermediate documents: 1-4 hours
>
> It really depends on the number of pages in the document, the level of
> accessibility desired (e.g. Section 508, WCAG, PDF/UA, etc.), the person
> doing the work, the tools you have available, the native document format,
> etc.
>
> Form based documents, documents with multiple columns, or documents with
> math, footnotes, superscripts, etc. can vary widely. Perhaps a better
> way of looking at it is the types of elements each document contains along
> with the number of pages.
>
> Jonathan
>
>