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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: Apr 17, 2025 11:02AM

Hello,
U.S. universities will often offer to properly tag or convert papers to
Word that a student requests. There's a 2-week turn-around, and sometimes
math content, for example, is not done correctly, but it's very nice to
have the university who will be willing to make a complex file usable on
request.
For less complex PDFs, I recommend:
https://papertohtml.org/
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;


On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM Julian Tenney via WebAIM-Forum <
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> I would say no, but it probably depends. If it's just general access to a
> third party resource, then the accessibility is not the University's
> responsibility. However that doesn't mean that the University shouldn't
> review the accessibility of that resource and i) highlight any issues to
> users, or ii) raise those issues with the third party.
>
> It might be more complicated if access to the resource is an essential
> part of a users job. The problem here is define 'essential'.
>
> The EAA is relevant here, with the onus falling on the third party. It's
> also more complicated because something like pubmed will contain resources
> in turn provided by multiple third parties, who may have varying standards
> / policies when it comes to accessibility.
>
> So in my opinion it's a good question because of the 'what ifs' but in my
> work at University of Nottingham I do not think we are responsible for
> pubmed's accessibility.
>
> Julian
>
> > From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > on behalf of
> Brian Lovely via WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: 17 April 2025 16:53
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Cc: Brian Lovely < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Subject: [WebAIM] University Resources
>
> I'm a little out of my zone here, so I hope I can word this question
> correctly. If a university provides access to outside resources, for
> example JSTOR or PubMed, is the university responsible for the
> accessibility of those resources?
>
> Thank you,
> Brian Lovely
>
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