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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Steve said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I don’t even understand what you mean by “</span>advocating for PDF is presently equivalent to advocating that no STEM articles are accessible”. As I have already said several times, the accessibility of a PDF is at least
as good as the source document and usually better.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">You have not researched enough. Math/STEM cannot be presented accessibly in PDF. It is only visually presented, which is not accessible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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