[Athen] [EXT] Accessible Digital Content - Still Need PDF

[Amanda Ryan]

Our accessible, digital versions are done in HTML5. Everything is semantically marked up, bullets are true bullets, lists are true lists, etc. I can easily pull that HTML into an accessible PDF, but the issue I’m encountering is they want the PDF to be a beautiful, print layout that looks exactly like something that would come from the printer. 

Amanda Ryan
Academic Technologist | Institute on Community Integration | ici.umn.edu <http://govrelations.umn.edu/>
University of Minnesota | umn.edu <http://umn.edu/>
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> On Sep 15, 2020, at 7:55 AM, Robert Beach <rbeach at KCKCC.EDU> wrote:

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> If your electronic version is accessible, you “should” be able to generate an accessible PDF version from that. What format is your current accessible electronic version?

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> Robert Lee Beach

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> From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu <mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu>> On Behalf Of Amanda Ryan

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> Good morning! We are currently required to create PDFs for many projects because they were promised to funders. We are trying our hardest to push people away from PDFs, but it will be years before we get to a place of zero PDFs.

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> We always create an accessible digital version, which is what we put front and center, but people still want the PDF available. 

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> How do others handle the situation where you have an accessible digital version, but you still need to have a PDF version? 

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> Amanda Ryan 

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