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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Jun 5, 2017 12:49PM

hi JP please do send what you can i will not be recording for a few days
yet. i only need a vary small doc. i am looking for a scanned doc that
then had tags added and ofcourse ocr smile lucy

Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Lucia,
> I have tons but can't release them because they are clients' work, not my
> firm's.
>
> However, most government documents are in the public domain once they are
> made public, such as when they are published to a public-facing website.
>
> Google *.gov + *.pdf and you'll find quite a few samples (well, probably
> millions) that might work for you. You might find:
>
> -- A really bad PDF that you can demonstrate in the video how to remediate.
>
> -- The same annual report but for different years. The latest might be
> more accessible than previous years. I use samples like this in my
> accessible design classes and they work very well because government
> reports usually maintain the same visual appearance from one edition to the
> next, so you can compare how various elements are accessible in one and not
> in another.
>
> Some government samples are below (note these are large PDFs made from
> InDesign layouts so they are full of design doo-hickeys, sidebars,
> graphics, lists, and more lists. And those crazy-named tags that InDesign
> creates, but use Acrobat's role-map utility to view how they will be
> interpreted by A.T.
>
> Here's an older 2011 edition that isn't accessible at all:
> https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2011-10-30qr.pdf
> A later version in 2012 that's fairly accessible:
> https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2012-04-30qr.pdf
> And a 2014 version that someone attempted to make accessible but really
> didn't know what they were doing: https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/
> quarterlyreports/2014-07-30qr.pdf
>
> --Bevi
>
>
>