As we say goodbye to Andrea Whipple-Samuel, Lucy Greco and the Digital Accessibility team would like to share our gratitude and give a special thanks and shout out to Andrea for her hard work and dedication to digital accessibility, particularly with the remediation of PDF content.
Among other things at Berkeley, Andrea coordinated the UCB policy creation and approval process, and she managed the policy distribution on the Office of Ethics, Risk and Compliance Services website.
When Andrea first came to Berkeley, she inherited decades of policies published using PDFs that were not accessible to some of our community and the public. After working through some options for remediation with Lucy Greco and Diana Grappasonno from Berkeley IT's Campus IT Experience organization, Andrea moved policy content from PDFs to HTML on the policy library section of the OERC website. Andrea's PDF conversion is an exemplar of how to cost effectively, efficiently and successfully remediate content out of the ever challenging PDF format. Thank you, Andrea! We wish you the best of luck. We will miss you.