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From: JP Jamous
Date: Nov 6, 2016 7:24AM

I second Ryan and Jonathan. If any PDF is provided by a vender, you can ask the vender to make it accessible. It is not the responsibility of the hosting site to make it accessible. You get into copyright issues.



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I agree with Jonathan, however you need to be careful about what you're doing. Where I work, most of the journals we work with (I am using that term loosely) do not allow us to remediate their stuff as they see it as editing. We have to basically say here is the PDF, if you have issues, you must raise it with the publisher because our hands are tied.

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On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> > - Are there any tips or best practices to converting complex PDFs
> > to
>
> PDFGoHTML is a plug-in for Acrobat that I have heard good things about.
>
> https://www.callassoftware.com/en/products/pdfgohtml/?
> type=product&product=pdfgohtml
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> Subject: [WebAIM] questions re converting PDFs to HTML (WordPress) and
> accessible footnote plugins
>
> 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.d
> pbs) 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?
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