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On April 7, 2026, the Accessibility NYC Meetup (A11yNYC) hosted a meetup ‘PDF to Accessible Markdown: Introducing Equalify Reflow, an Open Source AI Tool‘.
Blake Bertuccelli-Booth and Dylan Isaac of the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Digital Accessibility Team introduced Equalify Reflow, an open-source, agentic AI tool that transforms inaccessible PDFs into dynamic, accessible assets.
The presentationcovered common institutional challenges with PDFs, why the team uses Markdown, and how AI is informing decisions about building and scaling PDF remediation. The team also explained why the work is being released as open source and why UIC is investing in open-source digital accessibility solutions.
The meetup was webcast live via a partnership with the Internet Society New York Accessibility SIG.
SPONSORS: AKQA, Deque, Evinced, Google, Equal Entry, Fable , Aira
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