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Re: Rs: PDF Accessibility and Copyright (Sarah Ferguson)

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From: Sarah Ferguson
Date: Sep 1, 2016 12:23PM

Thanks, everyone.

All of you have made arguments that I myself have made here, as well :)

Youtube allows users to caption other's materials through fair use.

I'm hoping the government forms will already be accessible and I do think
we could request accessible versions from them if they are not.

The Journal ones...I was also thinking that adding tags would not be
apparent, but I'd hate to run into particularly litigious individuals who
are just looking for copyright infringement on a technicality. We try to be
extra careful here. Unless I find a specific law or precedent cited, I plan
to have the permission people go through each contract and get permission
in writing for the changes we wish to make. We could also ask at that time
for newer versions of the files, if they exist.

We are also using the new policy of forced accessibility to weed out PDFs
that aren't imperative to the web site. Some rely far too much on PDFs when
there are better ways!

thanks,
Sarah

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Sarah Ferguson
Web Accessibility Specialist
Department of Digital Communications