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Okay, so, it's just about two o'clock I'm 
showing on my clock here so, let's get started.  

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Thank you everyone for joining us today for 
another edition of Equidox Webinar Wednesday.  

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Today we're going to be talking about Getting 
it Done: the options that you have for PDF  

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accessibility. We realize that there's a lot of 
organizations of different sizes and different  

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verticals, with all kinds of different needs 
and limitations… Whether that be your budget,  

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your staff size, the deadlines that you 
have, or maybe just your general, you know,  

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sort of technical expertise when it comes to 
digital accessibility. So, the Equidox team, we  

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offer a lot of different options for helping you 
and your organization kind of work through these  

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challenges when it comes to digital accessibility. 
So, we want to make sure that everyone's aware  

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of all of these different options that 
you have, and how we can kind of tailor  

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some of these different options for you to best 
serve your organization and all of your needs. So,  

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just as always, to mention if you'd like 
to reach out to us directly feel free to  

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at EquidoxSales@Onixnet.com. Our website is 
www.Equidox.c. You'll also be able to find  

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a lot of other webinar recordings from different 
topics that we've covered over the months at that  

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website. And like I said feel free to reach out 
to any existing contacts that you have here if  

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you have any questions, or if you'd like to see a 
specific demo or have a more tailored discussion  

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around your organization and your needs. Please 
feel free to reach out to us at any time.

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So, before we begin, I just want to briefly 
introduce our parent company which is Onix. So,  

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Onix is a cloud consultancy that's most notable 
for our long-standing partnership with Google,  

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and Equidox is the software product 
that is owned and developed by Onix.  

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(sorry about that I just jumped on it)

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(I'm sorry I was getting some feedback 
there from someone else) But so,  

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Equidox is a software product that is owned 
and developed by Onix. We also have a lot of  

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other professional services that are based 
mainly around PDF accessibility, and our  

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mission is to ensure that digital information 
reaches everyone via accessibility solutions.  

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(Whoever's talking can you please mute yourself? 
I'm not sure who the panelist is that's talking)

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Okay, so, sorry about that. So, just to 
mention a few of our clients. We work  

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with notable names of different sizes and across 
all of the major verticals... and in education,  

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government, and enterprise. So, the same sort 
of concept applies to the organizations who deal  

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with accessibility challenges, regardless of the 
size or the vertical that your organization is in.  

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There are steps that need to be taken 
to ensure that the content that you are  

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distributing is accessible to everyone. So, 
just keep that in mind as we work through  

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this slide deck today, as you know accessibility 
is not going anywhere, and it's definitely  

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something that all organizations 
need to be focused on moving forward.

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Okay, so, I just wanna… Let's just lay some 
groundwork here and talk a little bit about the  

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laws. And the laws can vary depending on 
where you are located. So, in these laws,  

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these digital accessibility laws, they do apply 
to your websites, to your mobile applications,  

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and of course to the documents that you have 
posted to those websites and applications.  

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So, these are a list, here, a short list of 
the most commonly referred to federal laws.  

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But also, keep in mind that additional state and 
provincial laws can apply, depending on where  

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you're located or where you are conducting 
your business. So, for example, if you're a  

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California-based company, but you conduct business 
in Canada, well, federal law, California law,  

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and Canadian law can all apply to you. So, but the 
good thing is that many of these laws do refer to  

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the same set of standards, which is most commonly 
WCAG 2.0 AA. So, it's just best to familiarize  

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yourself with these laws and how they apply to 
you in your organization. And also, making sure  

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that you're aware of the standards that you need 
to meet, and what are some of those standards  

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that are going to be changing up coming on the 
horizon. So, just making sure that you're aware  

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of what laws are applicable to your organization 
and the steps that you need to be taking to make  

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sure that you are meeting or exceeding all of 
these standards that those laws are referring to.  

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Okay, so, now that we have we've established 
the laws that we are referring to, and all of  

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the litigation that all these organizations are 
trying to avoid, of course, the next thing I want  

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to do is mention a couple of different approaches 
for addressing PDF remediation as it pertains  

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to those laws. So, depending on a number of 
factors, as I mentioned on the very first slide,  

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which could be a combination of the staff that you 
have available, and the bandwidth that they have,  

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the time (if you have very strict 
deadlines that you need to adhere to),  

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the technical know-how of your staff... You know, 
does your team have any sort of experience in  

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digital accessibility? Do they need to go through 
different training boot camps to get up to speed?  

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And also, another important factor is the budget 
that you need to be aware of. So, I'll go into  

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more detail in upcoming slides about each of 
these bullet points, and the different approaches  

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that are listed here, and kind of how Equidox 
specializes in each of these different areas.

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Okay, so, slide six here. So, just about every 
organization in every vertical is generating PDFs  

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or they do have in many cases legacy PDFs that 
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So, we have experience working, again, with 
all of these different types of verticals.  

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And really it's important to keep in mind that, as 
far as we're concerned, a document is a document.  

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They can of course come from different sources, 
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but regardless of where that document came 
from, which vertical, and what the content of  

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that document is, we can find a way to make it 
accessible so that it does in fact comply with  

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the WCAG 2.0 AA standards. As I mentioned before, 
just one of the main verticals that we work with  

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in a use case that may be pertinent 
for people on this call today.  

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So, government agencies. Government agencies have 
a tendency to generate a truly staggering amount  

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of PDF documents. And many of these documents are 
intended to be part of public record and to stay  

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in circulation for a very long time. So, in many 
cases, taking the approach of, you know, a couple  

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of dedicated experts that are in that specific 
government agency going through each individual  

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document one-by-one, one page at a time… This is a 
pretty unsustainable model. There are far too many  

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documents being produced on a daily basis to be 
able to keep up with that sort of demand. So, many  

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times when we're working with government agencies, 
we would offer a combination of both software  

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services as well as templated solutions 
for the more repetitive type of documents.  

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So, we'll get into a little bit more... a couple 
more use cases for that as we move forward.

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Now another vertical that we work 
with a lot is education. So, higher ed  

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education institutions in particular also 
tend to generate massive amounts of documents.  

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So, these documents can be a number of different 
things. Course content for example… So, documents  

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that are intended for use in the classroom, 
you know, syllabi, tests, quizzes, handouts,  

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articles, textbooks, you name it... Any type of 
content that's being distributed in that class,  

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especially with so many schools going to 
online-only or a hybrid approach to different...  

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to learning in the classroom. This need for 
digital accessibility when it comes to education  

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is really skyrocketing. So, there's a lot more 
interest in making sure that all of this content  

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that's being distributed for the purposes 
of coursework is made accessible. But beyond  

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that... There are also, you know, annual reports, 
course catalogs, marketing flyers, administration  

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information like resumes, other CVs, and also, 
tons of different forms for applying for different  

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things. Housing applications, signing up for meal 
programs, you name it. There are there is probably  

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PDF documents floating around in just about every 
educational institution for that particular topic.  

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So, similar to government agencies it's really 
unsustainable to have a handful of people around  

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an entire campus that no digital accessibility 
front to back… and are able to kind of handle all  

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of the remediation efforts for the entire campus. 
This creates a serious challenge when it comes to  

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bottlenecks. You are going to have more content 
creators creating documents every single day  

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and all of that work can end up piling up on 
the desk of a couple of different people that  

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might know how to use certain software 
tools to remediate documents. You know,  

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one-by-one, one page at a time, which can be 
very tedious... very slow... and very technical.  

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So, I have spent a lot of time working with higher 
education institutions where I might be talking  

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on the phone with the very one person at the 
entire university or the community college that  

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knows how to use these accessibility tools. 
And is basically responsible for remediating  

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hundreds and hundreds of pages every single 
week. And still cannot keep up with the demand.  

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So, as I said, it's just an unsustainable model 
to have, you know, one person or a couple of  

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different experts for an entire organization of 
that size to be responsible for the accessibility  

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of all of the digital content that's being created 
by potentially hundreds of different people  

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on a daily basis. So, when it comes to education, 
oftentimes we sort of recommend a combination  

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of both software to be used by those content 
creators… So, sort of a self-service remediation  

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approach, where our Equidox remediation 
software is easy enough to use. It's simplified,  

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it's something that can be easily trained into 
people that don't have a wealth of accessibility  

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experience. And they're able to use our tool, to 
be able to work through documents on their own.  

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So, they can be responsible for the documents 
that they're producing on a daily basis.  

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Now also, we can offer a templated 
solution for documents that change  

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regularly, but only have sort of minor adjustments 
that are made. If you think of, like, you know,  

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course catalogs, or annual reports… Where it's 
basically the same template every single year.  

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Maybe just the dates and some data within the 
document changes, but it's essentially the same  

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outline. We do have a technology built into our 
software that allows for almost instantaneous  

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remediation when you run into instances like 
that. Where it's basically the same document  

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year-over-year, or semester-over-semester. Just 
a few little minor adjustments are needed. So,  

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we can offer a solution that really can 
help workaround that. Where you can apply  

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the remediation effort you did to a previous 
iteration of that document to a new version.  

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And of course, you know, when you're dealing 
with education institutions that in many  

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cases have tens of thousands if not hundreds of 
thousands of documents piled up in their backlogs,  

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another option is of course to outsource those 
documents. So, sending them off to an Equidox  

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remediation service, for example. Where we can 
actually remediate those documents and get them  

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back to the clients fully accessible, fully 
validated, even checked with screen reading  

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technology to replicate exactly how an end-user 
will be interacting with those documents.

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Okay, so, the last vertical that we'll mention 
here is enterprise. So, you know, just to kind  

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of walk through a general example… We recently 
had an enterprise client that did a self-audit  

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of their PDF backlog. And once they finished that, 
they uncovered roughly two million public-facing  

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documents. Not two million pages… Two million 
public-facing documents. And a document,  

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of course, could be...it could be one page, or it 
could be a thousand pages. Who could really say?  

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So, the number of pages of PDF documents that 
are presenting a liability for this company  

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is a truly staggering number. So, this company 
has again hundreds of content creators that are  

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creating content... really without a sort of 
defined workflow to ensure that it's accessible.  

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So, when you have hundreds of content 
creators producing documents coming  

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from different locations, using different design 
templates, using different publishing techniques,  

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you can really produce an extremely large 
amount of PDF content. And for varying levels  

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of accessibility that will require a lot of 
different approaches to making sure that it's  

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all accessible... and you are mitigating that risk 
of litigation by having like I said, two million  

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public-facing documents that are inaccessible 
and unusable by people with disabilities.  

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Also, a lot of these documents as they pertain 
to you know different laws and regulations in  

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different states... A lot of those documents of 
those two million are updated on a regular basis.  

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So, you have a PDF version of a document and it 
is referring to laws or something that is sort  

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of only pertinent for a month, or a quarter, or 
a year... And then you know a few months later,  

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it gets updated and a brand new version of 
that document is produced. And then that has  

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to be remediated as well. So, there are... it's 
really sort of a mind-boggling amount of work  

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that can go into it to trying to manage that 
many documents. But in this case, we offer the  

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solution of deploying our Equidox software 
to those many hundreds of content creators.  

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And that is a way of mitigating the remediation 
of that newly created content. So, we wanted to  

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make sure that those people that are producing 
those documents on a recurring basis... That  

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they understand how to use the Equidox software, 
that they understand sort of the steps that they  

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need to take to make sure before they post that 
document... before that document gets distributed  

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to their various clients or internally... 
that it is, in fact, accessible and usable.  

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And then it won't be adding into that backlog of 
millions of documents that need to be remediated.  

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Now that was for documents that were moving 
forward. In this particular use case, they also  

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leveraged our outsource services. So, they were 
able to send us a large quantity of that backlog  

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content for our team to remediate here internally. 
And then of course validate it and make sure that  

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it is fully accessible, fully compliant, and then 
we're able to send that those documents back to  

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that client. So that they can post those documents 
knowing that they have been made accessible. And  

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just to mention, we recently did another webinar 
that was more about Developing a Remediation Plan.  

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And it kind of covers these approaches in a little 
bit more detail. And we talk a bit more about, you  

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know, training staffing of a tool, the different 
methodologies, and the tools that are required.  

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And so, please feel free to take a look at 
that webinar. I think it was from either  

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last month or the prior month. But also, 
feel free to reach out to us for more of a  

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one-on-one consultation. We're more 
than happy to chat and walk through  

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our different approaches to remediation 
and how they might be able to help you.

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Okay, so, we do want to get into these different 
approaches. I've kind of mentioned three or four  

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different approaches that we have so, we want 
to kind of walk through in a little bit more  

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detail as to what these approaches are. So, 
with our Equidox software that many people on  

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this call might be at least somewhat familiar 
with, maybe you've seen a previous demo, or  

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maybe you're an existing user, or maybe you 
know you've seen one of our past webinars.  

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But with the software, if you have the staff, 
and that staff has the bandwidth to sort of work  

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on their own content, making sure that that new 
content that they're producing is accessible...  

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As well as if they have the time to work backward 
and kind of remediate through that backlog of PDF  

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content, that is something that, you know, Equidox 
might be a great solution for you if you have  

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that type of situation, where you have the team in 
place that is capable of remediating on their own.  

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One of the advantages of using Equidox software 
is the speed of the turnover. So if you have a  

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document that you've just produced... you know, 
maybe it's a Microsoft Word document you hit “Save  

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as PDF.” Well, you can immediately pop that 
document straight into the Equidox software  

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and remediate it, export it from Equidox, and 
know that it's accessible. And then you can post  

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that document straight away. So, you don't have to 
ship that document off to an outsourced service,  

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you don't have to wait around for it to be 
remediated and validated, and sent back.  

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It's truly remediation on demand. If you 
want to work on that document right away,  

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you can produce that document and have it posted 
the same day, knowing that it's fully accessible.  

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The other great advantage of using the Equidox 
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the cost associated with using software. 
Because we work on an annual subscription  

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and a concurrent user model... so, with our 
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10 concurrent licenses. That means 10 people in 
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And the annual subscription allows for an 
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So, you have sort of a fixed cost when it comes 
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year. You know exactly what you're paying up front 
for that year, and you can remediate documents to  

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your heart's content. So, there's no limit on how 
many documents that you can remediate. It's just  

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a matter of how much time do you have to commit to 
these types of projects. So, it's a great approach  

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if you have sort of budget constraints that you're 
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services side of things, that's typically being 
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that if you're in that situation of the enterprise 
client of ours that had two million documents in  

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a backlog, it can kind of become a runaway train 
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it's something to kind of balance. Find sort of 
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a tight budget you might look into software to 
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I also want to mention our PDF... our professional 
remediation services. So, if you are, in this  

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case, you know, if you're short on staff... If 
you don't necessarily have the technical know-how…  

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Or you don't have the time to commit to learning 
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hundreds of thousands of pages of PDFs, there's no 
technical knowledge required to use our services.  

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There's no learning curve to getting over a 
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through training and you can have the confidence 
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you're outsourcing it to us, to our professional 
remediators and validators, you know that you're  

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getting back a fully accessible, fully compliant 
document. So, you don't have to worry about… Did I  

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do this correctly? Have I made mistakes along the 
way using software? You can confidently post those  

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documents knowing that it is, in fact, accessible. 
So, it's definitely another approach to consider.  

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And typically this is charged on a per-page 
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a hybrid method between the two, so, a 
software and services hybrid approach,  

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is very popular amongst our clients. So, the 
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or just... if a tight deadline is looming 
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Those clients can often send us documents while 
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time to work on those types of documents. 
They're able to use the software for that  

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sort of self-service remediation. I also want to 
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So, one of the features that we have built into 
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this is for ( I mentioned an example earlier) if 
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templates. Maybe it's documents that are produced 
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a Spanish, a French version of the same 
document. Well, you can use Equidox and  

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our Zone Transfer feature to actually remediate 
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and then you can essentially lift and copy those 
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versions of that same document. So, you're able to 
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where you might have documents that 
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Or like I said before if you have documents that 
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and you need to correct those typos, and you 
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you can use that Zone Transfer technology 
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you're having to go back and remediate from 
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So, another one of our services that we offer is, 
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volume on-demand and human interaction-free 
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Basically what we do is we use a combination 
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we are training models to basically identify the 
different elements that make up your documents.  

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And they're able to apply accurate tagging 
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So, examples for this type of use case would be 
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by banks, or utility companies, or healthcare 
institutions where it's following the exact  

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same design, except the client name, the 
account numbers, the dates. You know,  

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some of the line items are changing from example 
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exactly the same. We're able to produce accessible 
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with no human interaction whatsoever. And I just 
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our clients that we've been working with for a 
couple of years. That's Cornell University. We  

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were approached by Cornell when they had around, 
well they have well over a hundred different  

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subdomains within their website. But they 
identified about 80 of their websites that  

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pertain to different departments and different 
colleges within the university that were a top  

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priority due to the vast number of accessibility 
deficiencies that they had. There were tens of  

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thousands of PDF documents posted to these various 
websites and their initiative was to of course fix  

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these websites. But also, the PDFs that are posted 
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They didn't feel that they had the staff or 
the time to get all of this done internally  

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so, they wanted to outsource these documents 
to our team. So, various website managers for  

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these different departments were sending 
us documents that needed to be remediated.  

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And based on a three-tiered pricing system, we 
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medium, or high complexity... and charging on a 
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medium, or high depending on how difficult and 
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And then we are also able to remediate and return 
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week of receiving them. So we're turning these 
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us files, we're sending them back, they're 
able to post it knowing that those websites  

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are… or knowing that those documents on those 
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In addition to the content creators and website 
managers sending us documents on a weekly basis,  

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they also use a campus-wide license of our Equidox 
software for that self-service remediation as I  

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mentioned before. So, in most cases, the Equidox 
software is being used for course content type  

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of materials. So, like I said, the textbooks, the 
articles, the course handouts, you know, tests and  

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quizzes that are being used in class… They're 
being remediated by the professors... by the  

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specific content creator... or maybe department 
staff that are dedicated users of Equidox. So,  

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that's the way that they're partnering with 
us to address their accessibility needs.  

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And they've been a great client of ours for a 
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we hope to continue working with them. But 
it's been a... it's been a perfect use case  

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for how we recommend a higher ed institution 
to work with our Equidox services offering.  

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Now we have a few minutes left, and I actually 
want to introduce Pat Needles, our Director of  

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Sales for Equidox. And he's going to talk through 
a couple of different case studies from clients  

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that he works with. So, Pat if you're...if you've 
got your microphone on, I'll urn it over to you. 

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[Pat] I am here. Can you hear me okay?
[Dan] Yep I hear loud and clear. 

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[Pat] Excellent. Thank you, Dan. Very 
good presentation. As Dan mentioned,  

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we are not industry-specific so, I'm going to show 
you a couple of different use cases. We'll have  

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one in the higher education, government, as well 
as the enterprise world. So, what you will see on  

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these slides (and I will not read them to you) but 
you see the case is on the left, and the solution  

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is on the right. So, how these organizations 
come about their needs, and how do they solve  

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whatever issues that they may have. So, with 
this first case study (and I'm going to keep the  

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organization's name out of it just for 
privacy sake), but one of the largest  

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college systems in the world with hundreds of 
thousands of students. You can only imagine with  

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that many students, the number of students 
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So, how do we go about, you know, taking care 
of them, you can only imagine the amount of...  

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massive amounts of documentation that they 
have considering the amount of students in  

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the hundreds of campuses that they have. People 
are creating content on every campus every day.  

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So, what you'll notice on some of these slides 
(and Dan talked about it earlier) is a backlog  

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of documentation. And in this case, archives. 
And regardless of the size of your organization,  

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you are going to have documents. Whether you're 
small, medium, or large. You need to have a  

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plan to make those documents accessible, and more 
importantly, usable, for folks with disabilities.  

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So, what the college decided to do was to put 
Equidox out there for content creators. So,  

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any new course material that was being made, 
and needed to be sent out to students, was going  

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through Equidox to make sure that it was 100% 
accessible and usable for the students. So, how  

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did they do that? Well, they bought a campus-wide, 
organizational-wide license of Equidox, where they  

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deployed over all of their campuses. And the nice 
thing about that Equidox license is that it can  

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be used by students and by faculty alike, 
as it's a very easy product to use, as Dan  

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mentioned. In addition, on that, because of the 
number of users they have, we continuously provide  

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training for new users or refreshment classes 
for experienced users. And there might be new  

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features and functionalities that are introduced 
in the application that folks need to know about.

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An organization this large, again, has hundreds 
of millions of pages. Most likely, I should say,  

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millions of pages of documentation 
considering the number of campuses. So,  

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handling those from a hybrid method, as Dan 
had mentioned earlier, using the software and  

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the service to combat that type of backlog 
is probably the best way to go about it.  

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And there's one last bullet point that I'll 
mention there. That administration features  

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a lot of oversight of large projects. 
Since Equidox is a software as a service  

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a web-based application, it can be deployed very 
easily. You're not stuck on a single machine.  

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As long as you have an internet connection, you 
can work anywhere and remediate documents from any  

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location, as well as share those documents with 
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Okay, so, this is another entity in California. 
A large healthcare organization came to us  

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with a very large need. Again, there's 
that big backlog of existing documents  

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that need to be made accessible and usable for 
people. And how to go about that... I know we're  

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kind of running down on time so, I'll kind of 
fast-track some of these things. Because you're  

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going to see a lot of the organizational-wide 
software license and remediation services as part  

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of our offerings. Dan, you want to move on?
[Dan] Sure. 

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[Pat] Thank you. I think Dan had mentioned this 
account earlier in the presentation. I think  

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millions of pages of documents that, you 
know, need to be dealt with. And this  

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agency is a national company that has offices 
in every state. And every state, as we know,  

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has different laws. But there's documentation 
nonetheless. And that's one of the use cases  

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Dan had mentioned earlier 
about the Zone Transfer tool.  

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They also are going to deploy an on-premise 
server for Equidox where they can remediate  

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more... well... non-public-facing documents. 
So, any sensitive data that they might want to  

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keep in the house, they'll use that on-premise 
solution as well. As Dan mentioned earlier as  

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well, batch processing bank statements, 
utility bills, health care statements,  

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that sort of thing. Dan, you want to go on? Thank 
you. So, again here’s another enterprise company,  

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a national bank. Again, they get a big, big 
backlog of documents that need to be dealt  

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with. But again, they're constantly creating 
new documentation. And this... here's an another  

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example of a potential batch process high volume 
bank statements repetitive type documents that was  

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mentioned earlier. And you see the remediation 
services agreement on most of these solutions,  

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because most organizations have just simply too 
much content that they have to deal with, and  

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the easiest thing for them maybe is to do some of 
it themselves and send off the more complicated  

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documents to an organization like Equidox, to 
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Okay, then you know, as I mentioned earlier, 
there are small, medium, and large size  

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organizations. Some of the small organizations 
that we have dealt with, you know, it's kind of a  

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lonely situation for some of them because it might 
just be one or two people doing the remediation.  

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That was brought up earlier, and they have, 
you know, potentially no training or full  

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understanding of PDF accessibility. And so, 
again, that's, you know... you can send that off  

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if you wish. Or, you know, if you're a small 
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it yourself. It's that easy to do using 
Equidox. So, we work with organizations  

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of all different sizes. And I know I'm over a 
little bit Dan, so I will hand it back to you.

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[Dan] Great! Well, thank you, Pat, for kind of 
walking through those different use cases and  

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case studies there. So, yeah I do apologize. That 
was a little bit long-winded in the beginning  

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of the webinar. So, let's wrap things up. 
We’re a couple of minutes past. But just  

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as a reminder, feel free to reach out to us at 
EquidoxSales@Onixnet.com if you have any questions  

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or would like to set up a sort of one-on-one 
consultation to talk about your organization  

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and your specific needs... As well as 
visiting us on Equidox.co. We're also,  

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very active on LinkedIn. So, please follow us 
on our social media to stay sort of aware of  

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what's upcoming with the Equidox team. But with 
that said I appreciate everyone for attending  

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today and we hope to see you on next month's 
webinar when we'll be talking... I'm not sure  

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if we have a topic fully defined yet... But we 
hope to see you all there. We'll definitely send  

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out correspondence to make sure that everyone gets 
the invite. So, thank you again, everyone. Have a  

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great rest of your Wednesday and we'll chat soon.
[Tammy] I just want to interject. I had a bunch  

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of people asking whether this was being recorded. 
And yes it is. It will be sent out as soon as it  

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is captioned. Everybody who signed up for 
the webinar, whether you attended or not,  

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will get a copy. And we'll also be sending around 
a small survey (like two minutes to fill it out).  

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If you could help us out with that, it'd be great. 
We just want to keep current with your needs for  

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our topics so that we're providing you information 
that you can actually use... that's going to  

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help you do a better job with accessibility. 
Thanks for coming everybody! See you next time.