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From: Sue Kot
Date: May 15, 2005 6:58PM

I am in the process of making our educational site Section 508 compliant and have found that we have over 350 active PDF files present. Some of these files cannot be created into an html format easily (i.e. college course catalog, etc.). For those PDF files where we cannot make an HTML alternative easily, is it safe to just go into Adobe and run the "Make Accessible" option for them? Any insights into similar situations that some of you may have run into with PDF's and site accessibility issues would be helpful! I'd like to get a handle on this and the best route to take in making our site compliant. Thanks in advance!

Sue