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From: Hayman, Douglass
Date: Apr 10, 2025 10:29AM

Glad to see this thread.

My college had a number of PDFs I was working to either remediate myself or job out to some more qualified firm. A number of our calendars were a mess to content with for those without vision.

They might have a PDF with 6 tables or 12, each representing a month. None of the table cells were properly marked up and might have just had a color in a cell to represent something like the start or end of the quarter or, a pay day. In many cases there might have only been one item of importance for a month.

Likewise, the document might have been for campus events and only had a few items in a month to relate.

It would have been somewhat easy to supplement the visual with something along these lines:

April 2025
7th, first day of classes
14th welcome event with presentation by student clubs

May 2025
5th, last day to drop classes

And so on where the month and year would be a header, the entries below those as an unordered list. And perhaps keep the grids for those who are sighted and prefer either or both ways of representing information.

Doug Hayman
IT Accessibility Coordinator
Information Technology
Olympic College
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