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Re: Nuance PowerPDF Advanced is now Kofax PowerPDF Advanced

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From: L Snider
Date: Nov 11, 2019 5:14PM

Totally Bevi, thanks!

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 7:53 PM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Quote: "still don't get why this is so hard in 2019!" /End Quote
>
> Because we -- all of us from content creators to end users -- must tell
> our companies and vendors what we need.
>
> I beta test for many companies, small to large including "household name"
> companies. The decisions of every single one of them is made by the
> division that controls marketing and product development. This department
> considers 2 factors:
>
> 1. What they think they can advertise as a selling feature that puts them
> above their competition and makes you want to buy a new version of their
> software.
>
> 2. Feedback, feature requests, and suggestions from customers.
>
> I'd wager that factor number 1 controls about 90% of their decisions about
> product development, and 10% is based on customer feedback.
>
> And I've never met a Mar-Com person who knew anything about accessibility,
> Sec. 508 and other international laws, the WCAG and PDF/UA standards, or
> anything else about accessibility. Karen McCall's experience with the
> Kofax/Nuance representative is typical.
>
> There are 2 halves of accessibility:
>
> 1. A software program must give content creators the tools to make
> accessible files, and
> 2. A software program must give A T users the tools to access accessible
> files.
>
> The Kofax rep that Karen talked with clearly didn't understand this and
> only kept telling her to use their text-to-speech utility, the second half
> of accessibility.
>
> If we don't tell Kofax, FoxIt, Adobe, Microsoft, Freedom Scientific, etc.
> what we need, they won't build it.
>
> --Bevi
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