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"Trust cannot be outsourced to machines." - Mark Gross, President, DCL |
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NEWSLETTER | April 2026 STRUCTURING DATA AND CONTENT SINCE 1981
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PDF: Anatomy of a Document Format and the Paradox it Presents for AI |
PDFs are everywhere. More than 290 billion are created each year, but your AI might be lying to you about what's inside them. PDFs encode appearance. They do not encode meaning. LLMs can provide answers from content in PDFs. But it can also hide how fragile those answers are – because machines do not see the inherent meaning behind a formatted document in the same way our human brains do. The promise of AI suggests you can unlock value from the content you already have, but if your content isn't structured, your AI is not necessarily reliable no matter how convincing it sounds. |
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Two Blind Grad Students, Inaccessible PDFs, and a Federal Reckoning |
When Miranda Lacy and Harold Rogers enrolled in West Virginia University's online Master's in Social Work program, they expected an education. What they got instead was a semester-after-semester battle with inaccessible PDFs, unreadable course materials, and a screen reader that couldn't make sense of any of it. Their story is now the subject of a federal lawsuit and is also a sharp reminder that inaccessible content isn't just a compliance gap. It's a barrier that shuts people out. With a new ADA rule taking effect this month requiring public institutions to meet digital accessibility standards, the stakes have never been clearer.
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Accessibility Remediation Starts With Structure |
Digital accessibility means removing barriers so that people with disabilities can interact with documents, websites, and other information technology. Today, many tools exist that enable people with blindness, low vision, or learning disabilities to access and read documents, websites, and other sources of information. All users can now have equal access to information and functionality, yet there are still serious issues related to making content truly accessible for all. DCL provides accessibility remediation services to help organizations transform existing content into experiences that are inclusive, legally compliant, and easy to navigate.
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DCL Bytes: Two Champions for Content Accessibility Discuss Complexities and Nuances of the EAA |
DCL Bytes is part of the DCL Learning Series and features short, informative clips on technology, structured content, and more. In this video short, DCL's Mark Gross and everyone's favorite accessibility expert Bill Kasdorf discuss the complexities and nuances of the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and specifically accessibility as it relates to JATS and BITS. |
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DCL partners with many global organizations that complement our services and offer a complete workflow solution to our customers. Following are some recent highlights from DCL's Partnership Laboratory. |
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AI Translation Tools: Benefits, Limitations and Enterprise Considerations AI translation tools can look like instant time-savers – especially when you’re under pressure to publish fast across languages. But for many teams, there are more considerations than just speed. When translation happens through public, general-purpose AI tools, risk becomes unmanaged: sensitive content gets copied and pasted, access is unclear, and there is no audit trail. You can end up with IT or Compliance teams stepping in to pause or block adoption. This article explains what secure, integrated AI translation should mean in practice – and how to evaluate options based on governance, workflow readiness, quality control, and accountability.
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The ADA Title II is Days Away: What Publishers Can Do to Get Ready—or Get Going
It should not be news to anybody who has been paying the least bit of attention that the deadline affecting most parties for compliance to the updated US ADA Title II is April 24. While this applies to “public entities” (strictly speaking, state and local governments), it affects publishers whose customers are US public libraries, schools, colleges, universities, and other public institutions. Although the 2026 deadline applies to public entities of 50,000 people or more, don’t delude yourself that this refers to the size of the school or library: it’s the size of the school or library’s city (the public entity) that governs.
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Data Conversion 1980s Style We found an old printed flyer from 1984 and had to share:
Need Wordstar data moved onto dBase II files? Need Lotus 1-2-3 data moved onto your COBOL General Ledger? Need to move from timesharing to your own microcomputer? Then call DCL!
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