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Re: "marked" as compliant?

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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Jun 28, 2017 10:33AM

Hi Bevi,

No trick intended!

I was not referring to your PDFs, but to the specifics of what I understood to be the CMS requirement based on the conversation.

I was hoping to hear that if CMS requires some PDF/UA 'medallion- that they also require the PDF/UA metadata.

Part of the point of PDF/UA is to improve the economics of accessibility, and enhance the availability of accessibility information to users. That's why we included *machine-readable* metadata as part of the specification. Software can use this feature to scan websites for PDF files that include the promise (PDF/UA) of accessible content vs. those that need work (for example).

Duff.

> On Jun 27, 2017, at 23:21, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hi Duff,
> Ha! Such a trick question from you <grin>.
> Of course our PDFs have the PDF/UA metadata.
>
> --Bevi Chagnon
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>