Digital Accessibility Training: Introducing Equalify Reflow – Converting PDFs to Accessible Formats!
May 27, 2026
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM America/Chicago
Cost
Free
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Join us for a live look at Equalify Reflow Beta, UIC Technology Solutions Digital Accessibility team’s open-source tool for transforming PDFs into accessible documents, presented by Blake Bertuccelli-Booth, Assistant Director of Digital Accessibility Engineering.
PDF accessibility remains a growing challenge across higher education. Manual remediation can be time intensive, expensive, and difficult to scale as document volumes continue to grow. Equalify Reflow offers a different approach by translating PDF content into Markdown, which can then be mapped more cleanly into accessible HTML.
In this session, attendees will see Reflow in action through a live demo and learn more about the five-stage AI pipeline that reads a PDF, interprets the intended meaning of the content, and rebuilds it as a structured, accessible document. We’ll also discuss how this approach can help reduce the time and cost associated with traditional PDF remediation workflows.
What is Equalify Reflow?
Equalify Reflow is an open-source document accessibility tool that turns PDFs into accessible web documents. It supports a faster, more scalable approach to document accessibility through a web app, WordPress integration, and API options, helping teams improve access to PDF content while advancing accessibility as a public good.
Target Audience
UIC faculty, staff, IT professionals, accessibility specialists, content creators, document authors, and anyone interested in scalable approaches to PDF accessibility.
Learning Objectives:
- What Equalify Reflow Beta is and why it was developed
- How Reflow converts PDFs into accessible document formats
- How the AI pipeline interprets and reconstructs content
- How this approach can help support more scalable document accessibility efforts
- Where Reflow may fit into broader campus accessibility workflows
Accessibility Information
This Zoom training will feature automatic captions. If available, electronic copies of the presentation materials will be shared prior to the session.
For any additional access requests or questions, please reach out to the DASE team using the contact information below.
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Date posted
May 5, 2026
Date updated
May 6, 2026
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