>>1456911https://wamu.org/story/20/03/04/metros-proposed-2021-budget-wasnt-accessible-to-blind-riders-until-this-week/>Blind riders testified that the 300-page budget document wasn’t compatible with screen reading software, which froze and crashed when they tried to open it.I'm impressed they managed to fuck up a pdf this badly.
What is the "cost" of compliance here? To OCR a PDF, you can get Acrobat business for...$16.99 per user per month, assuming no volume discount (
https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/pricing.html)
And chances are they made the document on their computers. Printing to PDF would retain all the text so you wouldn't need to OCR. You have to go out of your way to fuck up a PDF if you go this route.
So the real cost here is nothing but common sense.
