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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">All of this mess just reinforces, to me, that PDFs should NOT be being produced/remediated and given to students using screenreaders.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I don’t have these problems with well-formatted Microsoft Word or HTML files.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Sometimes I feel like a bit of a dinosaur, steadfastly continuing to create really great quality Word and HTML files for my students with VI, and
not even attempting to make a PDF accessible for them, or to create a PDF as output.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Until Adobe gets its act together, there is absolutely no reason for me to waste time trying to make PDFs work. It is not “easy” or “fast” to
remediate a PDF file, and even more importantly, the resulting PDF output is not effective! Why are we collectively banging our heads against the wall, as if there weren’t a different path we could (and should?) be following?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Just my cranky .02 this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Susan Kelmer
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Alternate Format Production Program Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Disability Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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735 4836</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#CFB87C"><a href="http://www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices"><span style="color:#CFB87C">www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D">Due to the nature of electronic communication, the security of this message cannot be guaranteed. If you’ve
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