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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I doubt many of the publisher-produced PDFs are not accessible/tagged. Every article I run into on a library database produced by a publisher is well-formatted
and perfectly tagged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The author specifically points to librarians creating documents using Microsoft word, so I’m assuming these are in-house documents. You don’t create a PDF in
Adobe PDF, you create it somewhere else and export it to PDF, with tags and etc. This is why I feel like the author doesn’t really understand what he is talking about. Even a basically formatted Word file with the use of styles/headings exports as a nice
PDF once it is done, and it takes very little time to do that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Susan Kelmer </span>
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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"> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alexis Delevett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 9, 2022 1:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] [EXTERNAL] Re: article advocating for PDFs in College & Research Libraries News<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Say we are stuck with PDF as the de facto storage format, why are Libraries still accepting untagged PDFs from publishers? Aren't they then on the hook for providing inaccessible
digital content?<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;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
on behalf of Susan Kelmer <<a href="mailto:Susan.Kelmer@colorado.edu">Susan.Kelmer@colorado.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 9, 2022 12:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [Athen] article advocating for PDFs in College & Research Libraries News</span>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Well, there is some glaring misinformation in there, and definitely too short a piece to be truly useful.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Remediating a PDF is difficult and time-consuming, while creating a good quality accessible WORD document is easy and only takes a few steps. That good quality Word file, which only took a few minutes to create
properly, can then be output to multiple formats, including tagged PDF and HTML.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I am not sure the author really understands what he is talking about.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Adina Mulliken<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 9, 2022 12:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] article advocating for PDFs in College & Research Libraries News<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:inherit;color:black">Sorry, this article might not be the best thing to share on a Friday afternoon, but here it is. I’m not agreeing with the
article. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:inherit;color:black">Chee, M., & Weaver, K. (2022). The great PDF debate: Accessible or impossible?. <em><span style="font-family:inherit;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">College
& Research Libraries News, 83</span></em>(8), 363. doi:<a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.5860%2Fcrln.83.8.363&data=05%7C01%7Calexis_delevett%40cuesta.edu%7Cdd5ca195edeb472e001e08da929aa73f%7Cdd06762afacb4cd7a4a5cc0ba50bcc30%7C0%7C0%7C637983490191416204%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=72mElso44RCXzQZJzdFBSWNgJhIJ%2FAp0mwLFQdmVE9A%3D&reserved=0"><span style="color:#56B0C9;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.83.8.363</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:inherit;color:black">At least the article cites a couple of articles that advocate a different view.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Adina</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Adina Mulliken<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">Associate Professor, Librarian Silberman Social Work and Urban Public Health Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">Hunter College, City University of New York<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">2180 3<sup>rd</sup> Ave. New York, NY<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">Phone 212-396-7665<o:p></o:p></p>
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