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From: Donna Blumberg
Date: Nov 4, 2016 8:36PM

I'm part of a volunteer team that formed for an annual contest
http://air-rallies.org/; we are building an accessible website for a
nonprofit. Our nonprofit has a website, http://www.autismismedical.com/ which
they want us to redo to be accessible; we are recreating this site in
WordPress. Their content is mostly PDFs of medical articles; that is all
we have to work with. The articles (such as the ones at
http://www.autismismedical.com/gastroenterology.html#sthash.1Wntc5DS.dpbs)
are fairly complex, with tables, images, citations and numerous footnotes.
We're working to convert some of these to WordPress posts; we'll remediate
others as PDFs.

Here are my questions:

- Are there any tips or best practices to converting complex PDFs to
HTML? We're converting them to Word or and then are doing copy/paste; this
is very time consuming as often the conversion isn't clean (typos etc).
We're creating posts using Advanced Custom Fields to separate and format
the various sections (journal, abstract, body etc). Some of these articles
are lengthy and have many footnotes or citations.

- which footnote plugin(s) are the most accessible? We're currently
using Easy Footnotes, https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-footnotes/

- any other thoughts or recommendations?