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

Melanie P. Thornton mthornt at uark.edu
Wed Sep 16 13:26:44 PDT 2020


Thank you, Sheryl.

This is a great approach! I didn’t mean to come across as saying having both is not a good idea! I think it is great as long as when one is updated, both are, which I know DO-IT always does. :)

Melanie

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On September 16, 2020 at 1:19:35 PM, Sheryl Burgstahler (sherylb at uw.edu<mailto:sherylb at uw.edu>) wrote:

At the DO-IT Center we offer our publications in HTML, but give individuals access to a PDF as an alternative (often because they want to print the document for reasons that include printing it out as a handout at a conference or as a product to distribute to/through campus units). Both versions are designed to be accessible and the HTML version is where you land if you search for a publication; PDF is offered through a link from that page.

Example of one of publication pages where we employ this practice:
https://www.washington.edu/doit/programs/center-universal-design-education/resources-and-training<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washington.edu%2Fdoit%2Fprograms%2Fcenter-universal-design-education%2Fresources-and-training&data=02%7C01%7Cmthornt%40uark.edu%7Ccd4a600b40a443c3ac8c08d85a6d0fe1%7C79c742c4e61c4fa5be89a3cb566a80d1%7C0%7C0%7C637358771749031305&sdata=QfgXfbb006JFA85mF9O3J4I4jVYO23AcQI0E07azikg%3D&reserved=0>

Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D.
Director, UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT, UW-IT
Affiliate Professor, Education
University of Washington, Box 354842
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On Sep 15, 2020, at 8:55 AM, Stager, Catherine <Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu<mailto:Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu>> wrote:

Can you just create a default CSS Print style for Media=print so that would generates the look and feel you find is desired in the PDF? I wonder if your users are actually going to print or if it is a matter of having an encapsulated version of the info?

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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.

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On Sep 15, 2020, at 7:55 AM, Robert Beach <rbeach at KCKCC.EDU<mailto:rbeach at KCKCC.EDU>> wrote:

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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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.

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

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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