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From: Kelly Lupo
Date: Jan 7, 2016 2:12PM

Sorry, to be clear - I'm not stating that anyone here specifically thinks
this (they may or may not), but it's possible that it was mandated by
superiors or other such similar situations. (Such as mine - where we go
from PowerPoint presentation to PDF for the website.)

Kelly

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Kelly Lupo < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I literally just had this conversation about 2 hours ago in my office, but
> a lot of the time, people feel that their information is 'secure' because
> the PDF file cannot be directly edited by others... That was why they
> wanted the documents in that format on the website - no matter how it was
> initially created.
>
> (I'm not sure they believed me when I told them I could take one of their
> (currently inaccessible) PDFs, or even an image of text, and then make it
> into an editable document in a few steps...)
>
> Kelly
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> hello:"
>> sorry i need to chime in here why save as a pdf any way why not save
>> the docs or slides presentation to html google does a good job of
>> making
>> that accessable. what reason is there for a pdf of some thing that was
>> born on the web.
>>
>> Lucia Greco
>> Web Accessibility Evangelist
>> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
>> University of California, Berkeley
>> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
>> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
>> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Chagnon | PubCom.com < <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > With respect, Duff, is it Acrobat that makes lousy files? Or is it the
>> > lousy construction of the source Word (or Office) document that's the
>> > problem?
>> >
>> > We're getting very good accessible PDFs from Word and PPT when the
>> source
>> > files are constructed correctly and exported correctly with Acrobat's
>> PDF
>> > Maker plug-in. I admit, there are some of the more complex items in Word
>> > that fail the conversion, but they are being addressed.
>> >
>> > Plus, none of those extra programs make complaint PRESS files for those
>> of
>> > us who must communicate both in print and digitally.
>> >
>> > —Bevi Chagnon
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
>> > Behalf Of Duff Johnson
>> > Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 12:46 PM
>> > To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> > Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible PDFs from Google Doc/Presentation
>> >
>> > > At this time, Adobe's products still reign supreme for PDFs, whether
>> you
>> > need a press-quality one for sending to the print shop, or an accessible
>> > one for electronic distribution.
>> >
>> > With respect… not so. There are other products that do as good and in
>> some
>> > cases a much better job of creating tagged PDF from MS Word files (for
>> > example) than Acrobat in its current incarnation.
>> >
>> > Moreover, some of these tools - typically the ones oriented specifically
>> > towards accessibility - include far, far better resources than Acrobat
>> > provides for ensuring accessibility of PDF documents.
>> >
>> > It's not my role to identify these vendors here.. but they exist, they
>> > aren't hiding and their products are available for sale today.
>> >
>> > Duff.
>> > >> > >> archives
>> > at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>> > >> >
>> > >> > >> > >> > >> >
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