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From: Vaibhav Saraf
Date: Oct 31, 2024 1:11AM

Hello people,

I was doing some research on various PDF remediation tools used and ran
into this 7-year old discussion on this very same list:
https://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=8432

I agree with many points raised here, such as remediating PDFs over and
over is not a solution, we should have more trainings and accessible
templates to start with. At my previous client we also went to the extent
of minimize producing new PDFs and converting many rusty old ones to
accessible webpages instead of remediating them.

Also the concerns raised about Adobe Acrobat's user experience are very
relatable, and as a screen reader user, last thing I want to do is
remediating PDFs. These days I even find browsers do somewhat better job at
rendering PDFs, though they fail miserably reading lists and tables.

I am curious though, since this discussion is now 7 years old, are the
different tools discussed have more or less the same effectiveness or
utility or some upped or downed itself anyone's pecking order? Curious to
know what comes out.

Cheers,
Vaibhav