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<div class="elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px">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?</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 9, 2022 12:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [Athen] article advocating for PDFs in College & Research Libraries News</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Well, there is some glaring misinformation in there, and definitely too short a piece to be truly useful.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><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></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I am not sure the author really understands what he is talking about.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Adina Mulliken<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 9, 2022 12:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> athen-list@u.washington.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] article advocating for PDFs in College & Research Libraries News</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" 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></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" 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" originalsrc="https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.83.8.363" shash="y3EYMolP7RHjzDTcIX6llje0OEWGAwQmEBNiahYru2LND8cHWbK0Y5fFdhFvn7YKm+7VAHhy9OhNkq6/Yf0F3x+PLE+szF88EZ2LvUb2zQ483He2LJBmubTT/BdfxStm70t75SXLoUYxF9TytHde46jsuzLLFQ7wEjL48HlBu98="><span style="color:#56B0C9; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.83.8.363</span></a></span></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></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Adina</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Adina Mulliken</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Associate Professor, Librarian Silberman Social Work and Urban Public Health Library</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Hunter College, City University of New York</p>
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