Given issues with fully-electronic conversion, passing through a paper phase tends to guard against foul-ups. It's tangible and demonstrable. People ... take short-cuts, which is why we're having this discussion.
Then use OCR to convert it back from raster for Section 508 compliance. All the existing work to make handwritten pages and visuals compliant would have to be redone after converting to raster.
You don't need to actually print and scan. Just convert to a raster format like PNG.
Given issues with fully-electronic conversion, passing through a paper phase tends to guard against foul-ups. It's tangible and demonstrable. People ... take short-cuts, which is why we're having this discussion.
Then use OCR to convert it back from raster for Section 508 compliance. All the existing work to make handwritten pages and visuals compliant would have to be redone after converting to raster.