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From: Chagnon | PubCom.com
Date: Jan 7, 2016 2:37PM


Many reasons why PDFs are needed.

Governments, corporations, and institutionals generally need a copy of everything they create that can be easily archived and established as a snapshot; that is, this was the document's state at this particular point in time.
Often it must be secured or locked from further edits or changes.
And it must be stored someplace where they have total control of the information, such as on their own servers, not Google's.

HTML versions are often spread across several webpages making it difficult to refer to "one" document. Google Docs are on Google's servers.

Other considerations:
One file that can be attached to an email, burned to a flash drive, and distributed.
Once they are downloaded to the device, PDFs don't require an active internet connection or fast bandwidth.

—Bevi Chagnon

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Lucy Greco
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible PDFs from Google Doc/Presentation

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
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