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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I would just like to take a few minutes to share my thoughts about PDFs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">It is a well-known fact that you cannot make a Microsoft Word document completely accessible. The tools for making accessible and checking for accessibility are
there, but are not complete.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Our college purchased
<a href="https://commonlook.com/accessibility-software/pdf/">CommonLook PDF</a> and
<a href="https://commonlook.com/accessibility-software/pdf/">CommonLook Office</a> (MS Word and PowerPoint) for remediation. Yes, it was an expensive tool. And the training to use CommonLook costs and is intense. Once we purchased CommonLook, we started asking
for the MS Word documents so we can make any changes needed and check it with CommonLook Office. Once that check is done, we save it to a PDF. We then send it to CommonLook PDF for the final fixes and checks. The final check lets us choose what standard to
pick, ISO 32000-1:2008, WCAG 2.1 AA, etc. and that end result tells us that the PDF is, in fact, completely accessible. You also have the freedom of submitting documents for them to do, if needed. There are various ways to connect with them with questions
and they are very helpful. Their training is on-going and exemplary. There are times we can’t get the MS Word document so we just remediate the PDF and the success rate on accessibility is high.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="331" height="245" style="width:3.4479in;height:2.552in" id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D7B512.825B4FA0" alt="Standards Checklist
Structural Standard- ISO 32000-1:2008
Accessibility Standard- Section 508 (2001), WCAG 2.0 AA (revised section 508-2017), PDF/UA 1.0 (ISO 14289-1), HHS, HHS (2018 regulations), WCAG 2.1 AA
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">I do not disagree that PDFs can be impossible to make fully accessible if you're only using Adobe Acrobat Pro. However, there are tools out there that can get a
PDF completely accessible. Before CommonLook, I only had Adobe Acrobat Pro to use to remediate PDFs and it caused me great concern as there was much that was hard to make accessible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">It would be such a blessing if at a state board level, they purchased CommonLook for all colleges to use for remediating documents. It would be a well-spent choice,
I can assure you. Our college, my department, also does software testing for all possible new purchases and renewals for accessibility. From my own testing results, I can tell you that the state board has purchased software that is not totally accessible.
It would warm my heart if our Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges would purchase CommonLook for all of us to use (I’m sure the discount would be great). It is an accessible software to use (keyboard shortcuts galore which makes the
remediation process even faster even if you don’t use a screen reader) and will produce accessible digital content. Our not-accessible content worries would end. We would be on the cutting edge of accessible content, for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you for allowing me to share my own personal thoughts on this subject.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Accessibleit <accessibleit-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sheryl Burgstahler<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 27, 2021 3:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dylan Gibson <gibsond6@wwu.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> atcoord@lists.ctc.edu; accessibleit-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu; accessibleit@uw.edu; David Engebretson <engebrd2@wwu.edu>; accessibleit@u.washington.edu; Carly Gerard <gerardc@wwu.edu>; Max Bronsema <bronsem@wwu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Accessibleit] [ITACCESS] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for sharing. Great progress.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D.<br>
Director, UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT, UW-IT<br>
Affiliate Professor, Education<br>
University of Washington, Seattle<br>
<a href="https://sites.uw.edu/sherylb/">https://sites.uw.edu/sherylb/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sep 27, 2021, at 3:44 PM, Dylan Gibson <<a href="mailto:gibsond6@wwu.edu">gibsond6@wwu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Here at Western Washington University (WWU) we’ve worked to reduce our PDF production and have reduced our PDF numbers from 10,000+ in 2018 when I joined, to roughly currently
around 2,000 circulating PDFs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This reduction in PDFs is due to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Communicating with WWU stakeholders, faculty, and staff regarding the general inaccessible nature of PDFs<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xmsolistparagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Working with WWU stakeholders to use HTML in place of PDFs when acceptable, and to remediate PDFs when necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xmsolistparagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Removing PDFs that are no longer needed/utilized by the University<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I was hired in the summer of 2018 as the Document Remediation Specialist due to my background working with the Disability Access Center at WWU to turn textbooks into accessible
documents for students with disabilities. It was my job to spearhead a campus-wide campaign to rid our sites of inaccessible PDFs. During this time I worked with site owners/editors to identify and remediate (and in some cases remove unnecessary/outdated)
inaccessible PDF files.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Since then we have added a PDF-accessibility tutorial to or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://designsystem.wwu.edu/accessibility">basic web accessibility
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<b>Reply-To:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Promoting Accessible IT in Higher Education <<a href="mailto:accessibleit@u.washington.edu">accessibleit@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Date:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 9:18 AM<br>
<b>To:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Promoting Accessible IT in Higher Education <<a href="mailto:accessibleit@u.washington.edu">accessibleit@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"<a href="mailto:atcoord@lists.ctc.edu">atcoord@lists.ctc.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:atcoord@lists.ctc.edu">atcoord@lists.ctc.edu</a>>, "<a href="mailto:accessibleit@uw.edu">accessibleit@uw.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:accessibleit@uw.edu">accessibleit@uw.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [Accessibleit] [ITACCESS] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I would love to have members on this list share successful practices in eliminating or at least reducing the use of PDFs in favor of, for example,HTML or Word.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="xapple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The
EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Community Group Listserv <<a href="mailto:ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU">ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU</a>> on behalf of Ortiz, Tracie R. <<a href="mailto:tortiz@ODU.EDU">tortiz@ODU.EDU</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, September 22, 2021 12:30 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [ITACCESS] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Community Group Listserv <<a href="mailto:ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU">ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU</a>> on behalf of Krista Greear <<a href="mailto:krista@INCLUSIVEINSTRUCTIONALDESIGN.COM">krista@INCLUSIVEINSTRUCTIONALDESIGN.COM</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span>[ITACCESS] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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From:<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:chagnon@pubcom.com">chagnon@pubcom.com</a>><br>
Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 11:57 AM<br>
Subject: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE<br>
To: WebAIM Discussion List <<a href="mailto:webaim-forum@list.webaim.org">webaim-forum@list.webaim.org</a>></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Last week, Adobe updated Acrobat and with it, the PDF Maker plug-in for MS<br>
Office that is used to export PDFs from Word and other office apps on<br>
Windows.<br>
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Several key bugs in PDF Maker have shown up since, namely:<br>
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* Alt-text added in Word is dropped in the exported PDF and replaced<br>
with code gibberish. (Yes, all the Alt-text you worked hard on is gone!)<br>
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* Every frigging line, border, and background fill on table cells,<br>
text boxes, paragraph borders, and hyperlinks is tagged in the Tag Tree with<br>
<P>PathPathPathPathPathPath.one "path" for each border on each cell in a<br>
table.<br>
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* And there's no way to roll back to the previous version of Acrobat<br>
and recover your tools. Once updated, you are S O L.<br>
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Three actions to take:<br>
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1. Vote to fix these bugs on Adobe's UserVoice website.<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><br>
If you can, please also add a comment about how accessibility is required<br>
for you and your organization by your country's and state's laws. (Adobe's<br>
staff don't understand these laws about civil rights and equal access to<br>
information.) We need a few hundred votes on this page for Adobe to pay<br>
attention to the problem, so spread this message to your colleagues. <span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><br>
The website is at<br>
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estions/44183082-accessibility-errors-with-pdf-maker-update-sept-20</a> <br>
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2. Until this is fixed, use Microsoft's built-in utility to export<br>
accessible tagged PDFs, and skip the Acrobat Ribbon (which is the Adobe PDF<br>
Maker plug-in) altogether. I'll have a blog / tutorial on this by the<br>
weekend, but in the meantime, here are the quick instructions:<br>
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a. Make an accessible Word document as usual, with styles, Alt-text,<br>
etc.<br>
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b. File / Save As / and then choose PDF in the File Type field. This<br>
triggers Microsoft's built-in export utility, not Adobe's.<br>
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c. Set your options, file location, and file name.<br>
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3. And don't upgrade to the latest version of Acrobat. The version<br>
that is buggy (well, more than usual) is 2021.007.XXXX, and the versions of<br>
PDF Maker that are installed with it are PDF Maker 21 Library 21.7.123 and<br>
Library 21.7.112.<br>
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