Web Pros Meeting – PDF documents

Our first 2021 meeting will be next Thursday, July 15th, at 2pm and our speaker will be Gary Wilhelm, Digital Solutions Manager for the Division of Finance and Operations. Gary will be talking about a topic that can generate a lot of strong feelings in those of us who manage websites: PDF documents!

See below for more details on Gary and on the topics he will be discussing.

Presentation summary:

A major component of many university websites, in addition to elements such as text, images, and videos, are PDF documents. PDFs can be both a blessing and a curse when it comes down to conveying information to our audiences, and one of the many challenges that web designers face is the best way to use and integrate them into their websites. In this presentation, Gary Wilhelm will explore the PDF, discuss the best times when and when not to use it, and show several ways in which he has successfully integrated both simple and complex PDFs into websites for Finance and Operations as well as Institutional Integrity and Risk Management. In addition, he will spend some time discussing PDF accessibility and demonstrate tips and tricks for making your PDFs ADA-compliant.

Speaker details:

Gary Wilhelm is the Digital Solutions Manager for the Division of Finance and Operations at UNC-Chapel Hill, which is a fancy way of saying that he works on websites and develops web applications. He has been employed at the University for almost 22 years and has worked in several departments during that time, spending nine years at the law school before his current tenure of about 5.5 years with Finance and Operations. He holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from UNC-Chapel Hill. In his spare time, he likes to travel, do yard work, run, watch sports, pester his wife and two teenagers, and help his dog look for squirrels and rabbits.