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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Feb 8, 2015 4:20AM

Thanks Bevi!

I too don't understand the "advice."

For the most part the webinar provided a good set of best practices. It was
the three standards/guidelines/requirements/best practices that I mentioned
that I have a real problem with...and the fact that this seems to be a
closed process.

I would add that a document using tables for design layout would require a
lot of remediation to be put into Braille or large print.

My comments were to say that I don't understand, with all we know about
accessible document design and the wealth of knowledge in our community, how
three items that promote the creation of inaccessible documents could be in
a set of standards/requirements for "accessible documents."

I would think that knowing that these requirements are moving forward and
being taught now would motivate our community toward asking questions,
challenging and changing this not accepting that within a short time Section
508 looks like it will mandate the creation of inaccessible content and the
use of techniques that don't work in a word processing environment.

...and then there's the potential for litigation that could result from
publishing these inaccessible documents.

Cheers, Karen