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Adrienne Haywood shared thisCoCounsel Tax & Audit just keeps on winning. :-)Adrienne Haywood shared thisIncredibly proud to share that CoCounsel Tax & Audit has been awarded a Bronze Stevie Award for Best AI-Powered Product or Service at the 24th Annual American Business Awards. 🥉✨ The judges recognized the platform for its "strong innovation in enterprise AI" and its ability to deliver research, analysis, and workflow automation in a secure, authoritative environment. That validation means a lot — but what means even more is hearing from the tax and accounting professionals whose work we've genuinely made easier. 32% time savings per task. Trusted sources. Every answer defensible. That's what purpose-built AI looks like. Huge congratulations to everyone at Thomson Reuters who poured their expertise into this product. #ThomsonReuters #CoCounsel #AIInnovation #TaxAndAccounting #AmericanBusinessAwardsThomson Reuters honored as Stevie Award winner for CoCounsel Tax & Audit - Thomson Reuters InstituteThomson Reuters honored as Stevie Award winner for CoCounsel Tax & Audit - Thomson Reuters Institute
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Adrienne Haywood shared thisWow! Go team! This is exciting news, indeed.Thomson Reuters Tax, Audit & Accounting Professionals
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1moAdrienne Haywood shared thisExciting news! Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Tax & Audit is an Honoree in the 30th Annual Webby Awards. We're proud of this recognition from the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, awarded to the top 25% of entries and highlighting the impact of innovation for tax and audit professionals. Take a closer look at CoCounsel Tax & Audit: https://ow.ly/MIAh50YCU8z The Webby Awards: https://ow.ly/SP5E50YCUy1 -
Adrienne Haywood shared thisJust finished the course “Accessibility for Web Design” by Derek Featherstone. https://lnkd.in/dTsZ3zzC #accessibility #itaccessibility #com.I thought I knew quite a bit about accessibility, but I learned a LOT from this presentation. Definitely worth the time.
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Adrienne Haywood reposted thisAdrienne Haywood reposted this✨CoCounsel has reached one million users. And that says something because one million users can’t be wrong. Across 107 countries and territories, one million users trust CoCounsel, Thomson Reuters AI technology, to handle their highest-stakes work in legal, risk, compliance, tax, accounting, audit and global trade professionals. This milestone isn't just about scale, it's validation. Validation that professional-grade AI, built to rigorous standards with end-to-end trust, is what the market has been waiting for. Not demos. Not experiments. Real AI for real work. Delivering real ROI. To every customer who chose to work with us: thank you. You've held us to the highest standard, and we've delivered. And to the next million to join us: we're ready. 🔗https://ow.ly/n2v750YkX8p
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Adrienne Haywood shared thisA belated but exciting post. My team - affectionately known as the Get it Done team - was recognized with a 2025 Breakthrough Award (specifically, the Delightful Design award) at Thomson Reuters for our work on Ready to Advise. I'm so proud to be part of this brilliant team and to be #WorkingAtTR.
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Adrienne Haywood posted thisUX Content Designers/Strategists: Are you using (or have you tried to use) generative AI specifically for reusable UX content? ( button labels, error messages, etc., more so than snippets of disclaimers or legal blurbs). It seems like it might be a large lift for a small return, but I’d love to hear how UXCD teams are making it work for them. Or not. #contentdesign #contentstrategy #uxwriting
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Adrienne Haywood shared thisAttention, my amazing former UX Content Design colleagues - especially leads & staff content designers. If you're seeking a new opportunity, consider this one. There's much opportunity for impact in an org that understands how critical our work is. And - cool teammates, like moi. :-)
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Adrienne Haywood shared thisAdrienne Haywood shared this** Update: The raffle is now closed. Thank you for all the shares, comments, and support. Some wonderful books are on their way to some cool new people and homes. ** UX content is an amazing field to be part of. It is also hard to be in this field sometimes. And, it can feel (and be) exponentially harder if you’re newer to this work—I see you students, junior content folks, and career transitioners. There’s also been a ton of layoffs. Oof. To offer another form of support and community, I want to have folks shop my bookshelf. Fill out your info in a short Google Form, and then I'll hold a raffle to select 4 people to get a book: 1 student; 1 early-career content practitioner; 1 person transitioning to UX content; and 1 person who has been laid off. Full details, caveats, list of books, and link to Google Form available on my website (link in comments). Please help me spread the word!
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Adrienne Haywood reacted on thisAdrienne Haywood reacted on thisIncredibly proud to share that CoCounsel Tax & Audit has been awarded a Bronze Stevie Award for Best AI-Powered Product or Service at the 24th Annual American Business Awards. 🥉✨ The judges recognized the platform for its "strong innovation in enterprise AI" and its ability to deliver research, analysis, and workflow automation in a secure, authoritative environment. That validation means a lot — but what means even more is hearing from the tax and accounting professionals whose work we've genuinely made easier. 32% time savings per task. Trusted sources. Every answer defensible. That's what purpose-built AI looks like. Huge congratulations to everyone at Thomson Reuters who poured their expertise into this product. #ThomsonReuters #CoCounsel #AIInnovation #TaxAndAccounting #AmericanBusinessAwardsThomson Reuters honored as Stevie Award winner for CoCounsel Tax & Audit - Thomson Reuters InstituteThomson Reuters honored as Stevie Award winner for CoCounsel Tax & Audit - Thomson Reuters Institute
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Adrienne Haywood liked thisAdrienne Haywood liked this𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗮𝘅 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲 → 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟯 𝗜𝘁𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 A clear market shift is that the discussion is moving closer to execution. Which of the big tax software vendors is bringing these capabilities into the tax workflow itself, where returns, calculations, checks and decisions actually happen. Right now, Avalara is making that case very loudly. Their April 9 update stood out because the focus is clearly on AI agents inside core compliance work like tax calculation, return prep, and exemption certificate management. That is a meaningful step. It suggests the market is moving toward systems that can take on a larger share of the process within controlled guardrails, instead of only supporting the user at the edge of the workflow. Thomson Reuters is also in a very strong position here, especially because of the scale they are already showing. One million professionals using CoCounsel is not a small signal. For tax, the bigger point is that these capabilities are increasingly being connected to the wider Thomson Reuters stack, including CoCounsel Tax and ONESOURCE+. That matters because in regulated tax work, reach alone is not enough. The combination of workflow, trusted content, validation and review is where the competitive advantage starts to become more real. Vertex Inc. deserves a mention too. Their focus seems to be on improving execution across the compliance lifecycle, spotting issues earlier, reducing rework and keeping processes audit ready. From a market perspective, that is a serious play. Sovos is in the conversation as well. The recent Sovi AI expansion shows a practical direction. Ask Sovi may be the most visible part, but the broader signal is that Sovos is also building the structure needed for more governed AI-driven actions over time. At this stage, Avalara and Thomson Reuters appear to be shaping the conversation most visibly. But which of these four do you think is best positioned to turn agentic AI into something tax teams will actually use in practice? #agenticai #taxautomation #AIintax #taxtech Thomson Reuters Europe Thomson Reuters Tax, Audit & Accounting Professionals Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal Avalara Europe Avalara APAC Sovos EMEA
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Adrienne Haywood liked thisAdrienne Haywood liked thisAfter 7 years at Thomson Reuters, Friday was my last day. Product Design at the company evolved greatly over the years and I’m very proud of the team and culture that was built over the years. Right now I’m taking a week off to enjoy time with my family before I start a new role. Thanks to all of the great leaders I had a chance to work with over the years: Jennifer Winters, Charlie Claxton, Claudia B Coleman, Mark Lannutti, and Piritta van Rijn and many others. The entire design team and my partners in the TAAP business.
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Adrienne Haywood liked thisAdrienne Haywood liked thisBreaking the browser Back button has long been a bad #UX practice, not to mention a pet peeve of mine. So I don't mind at all if Google wants to start forcing sites to cut it out, by making it an #SEO ranking factor. Break the button, lose traffic.👍 https://lnkd.in/gT8fDK4EGoogle Search to penalize back button hijacking schemesGoogle Search to penalize back button hijacking schemes
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“Where to start. I've had the pleasure of working with Adrienne twice, and would do so again any time. I first worked with her at Thomson Reuters where she made the transition from Sr. Technical Writer to Sr. Content Designer for complex Accounting software so quickly, effectively and passionately that I promoted her to Content Design Lead a year in. She has the rare mix of caring about the business, the user, her peers and her partners at all times, and being able to articulate and "show the math" behind her word thinking to all levels and skill sets within the organization. She's also passionate about styles and standards, and has now partnered with several design teams to stand those up content design reuse and references for internal users. I hired her to come join my Content Design team at GoodRx the moment she became available, where in a short time she made positive impact to three high-visibility product lines across web, mobile, native and related communication channels in short order. She continues to impact their Healthcare Provider experience, offering behavior and research-driven content expertise to greet and guide their thousands of busy, patient-focused users. I can't list all of her accomplishments here but can say this: I'd hire her again in a heartbeat, and recommend the same to anyone who has the opportunity.”
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Janine Obermöller-Gras
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The same principles apply in technical documentation in general. It is not only bad for accessibility of any content, it will also cost time and money for every medium content is distributed or converted to. Incomplete formatting based on wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) ignores the structural formatting. Exactly what is also needed for accessibility, cause reading software runs in the same issues single source publishing has. If the headline isn't labeled as headline it is just text. Users cannot skip between chapters and the visual formatting will keep breaking. Empty line or tabs can break import procedures and make exports and publications look weird. Besides that editing content can be very tedious if different people edited and it looks the same but the underlying format causes different behaviour depending on which chapter you work on. All because it looked okay when someone made it who were never taught the importance of layout beyond the visuals. They did their best and as a one off, it does well enough. The problems come if your content need to be accessible or is intended to be reused. Sure, it is expensive to have someone around who can do this or teach the staff, but it might be cheaper than reformat the same content every time, loose customers due to inaccessible content, or pay consultants to fix a systematic issue over and over again.
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Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA
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📚 Drowning in inaccessible PDFs? Your accessibility strategy won't scale like this. ✅ Solution: Scribe from Pneuma Solutions 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gkAJ3ZcA Every organization has them: PDFs, Word files, slide decks, old scans, and a small team trying to keep up with one accommodation request at a time. Manual remediation may work for a few priority documents, but it doesn't scale, it's expensive, and it leaves you exposed to legal risk and to people who simply can't get what they need in time. That's exactly the problem Scribe is built to solve. 🎯 Who Scribe Is For Scribe is for leaders who need document accessibility to be a repeatable process, not a fire drill: 👉 Heads of accessibility and DEI. 👉 Disability services and student support teams. 👉 IT and digital teams who own websites, portals, LMSs, and repositories. 👉 Compliance, legal, and risk officers accountable for ADA, Section 508, EN 301 549, and similar laws. 🧠 What Scribe Actually Does Scribe is an Augmented Document Remediation platform that ingests documents and automatically produces structured, accessible versions in the formats your users need: 👉 Accessible HTML and tagged PDF. 👉 EPUB or DAISY. 👉 Large print, braille-ready files, and human-sounding MP3 audio. One process can serve screen reader users, braille readers, and low-vision users at the same time. ⚙️ How It Fits Into Your Ecosystem Scribe isn't another portal your team must manage, it plugs into what you already use: 👉 Websites and portals: Add an Accessible version link so Scribe generates accessible formats on demand. 👉 SharePoint, intranets, and LMS: Staff convert internal and course documents directly where they're stored. 👉 APIs and automation: IT runs outbound communications through Scribe before they go out the door. 👉 Scribe Cloud covers general and public-facing content. 👉 Scribe Desktop serves individuals working with highly sensitive materials. 👉 Scribe Server Appliance handles on-premises, high-volume remediation when content can't leave your network. 🔐 Compliance Without the Backlog 👉 Address large volumes of legacy content without multi-year, multi-million-dollar projects. 👉 Standardize on WCAG- and PDF/UA-aligned outputs instead of bespoke one-offs. 👉 Respond faster to accommodation requests while you improve your entire library. 💰 Why Automation Wins Manual remediation equals high cost per page times a small number of documents helped. Scribe flips that so automation equals low cost per page times orders of magnitude more documents helped. 👉 Reserve human experts for complex edge cases and let Scribe handle everyday course packs, policies, forms, and reports. 👉 Start with a website section, program, or faculty and pilot Scribe there. 👉 Measure turnaround time, costs, and user satisfaction so you can show the impact.
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Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA
Freelance • 415 followers
📚 Drowning in inaccessible PDFs? Your accessibility strategy won't scale like this. ✅ Solution: Scribe from Pneuma Solutions 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gkAJ3ZcA Every organization has them: PDFs, Word files, slide decks, old scans, and a small team trying to keep up with one accommodation request at a time. Manual remediation may work for a few priority documents, but it doesn't scale, it's expensive, and it leaves you exposed to legal risk and to people who simply can't get what they need in time. That's exactly the problem Scribe is built to solve. 🎯 Who Scribe Is For Scribe is for leaders who need document accessibility to be a repeatable process, not a fire drill: 👉 Heads of accessibility and DEI. 👉 Disability services and student support teams. 👉 IT and digital teams who own websites, portals, LMSs, and repositories. 👉 Compliance, legal, and risk officers accountable for ADA, Section 508, EN 301 549, and similar laws. 🧠 What Scribe Actually Does Scribe is an Augmented Document Remediation platform that ingests documents and automatically produces structured, accessible versions in the formats your users need: 👉 Accessible HTML and tagged PDF. 👉 EPUB or DAISY. 👉 Large print, braille-ready files, and human-sounding MP3 audio. One process can serve screen reader users, braille readers, and low-vision users at the same time. ⚙️ How It Fits Into Your Ecosystem Scribe isn't another portal your team must manage, it plugs into what you already use: 👉 Websites and portals: Add an Accessible version link so Scribe generates accessible formats on demand. 👉 SharePoint, intranets, and LMS: Staff convert internal and course documents directly where they're stored. 👉 APIs and automation: IT runs outbound communications through Scribe before they go out the door. 👉 Scribe Cloud covers general and public-facing content. 👉 Scribe Desktop serves individuals working with highly sensitive materials. 👉 Scribe Server Appliance handles on-premises, high-volume remediation when content can't leave your network. 🔐 Compliance Without the Backlog 👉 Address large volumes of legacy content without multi-year, multi-million-dollar projects. 👉 Standardize on WCAG- and PDF/UA-aligned outputs instead of bespoke one-offs. 👉 Respond faster to accommodation requests while you improve your entire library. 💰 Why Automation Wins Manual remediation equals high cost per page times a small number of documents helped. Scribe flips that so automation equals low cost per page times orders of magnitude more documents helped. 👉 Reserve human experts for complex edge cases and let Scribe handle everyday course packs, policies, forms, and reports. 👉 Start with a website section, program, or faculty and pilot Scribe there. 👉 Measure turnaround time, costs, and user satisfaction so you can show the impact.
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Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA
Freelance • 415 followers
🧾 Your archive is massive. Your accessibility budget isn't. ✅ Solution: Accessible Archive From Pneuma Solutions 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gf-MH2hS 📅 ADA Title II Deadline: April 24, 2026 🔗 https://title2.info/ State & local governments (population 50,000+) must ensure websites, mobile apps, and digital documents comply with WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Universities, libraries, and public agencies share the same reality: decades of PDFs/scans in “permanent” archives, and a legal + ethical obligation to make them accessible. Manually remediating millions of files isn't a strategy; it's an open liability. That's why Pneuma Solutions built Accessible Archive. 🎯 Built For University/academic libraries; public libraries/state archives; museums/cultural institutions; government agencies/records offices; large enterprises with document management systems full of old PDFs. If you own legacy content + accessibility (or lawsuits), it's for you. 🧠 Just-In-Time Accessibility Traditional: “Remediate everything up front, or not at all.” Slow, expensive, usually cut halfway. ✅ New Model: 📄 User requests a doc (catalog/DMS/portal). 📄 It converts that file to accessible formats: HTML, tagged PDF, MP3, braille, large print. 📄 Result is cached. 📄 As the engine improves, the same file can be auto-reprocessed to a higher standard. 👉 You stop paying to fix documents nobody reads. ⚙️ Fits Your Existing Stack Add an “Accessible version” button in your catalog/repository/intranet. Click → your system calls the API; user picks a format; delivery in seconds/minutes, not weeks. Deploy in cloud (general collections) or on-prem/private appliance (content stays inside your network). All traffic is encrypted; you control what's retained beyond caching + audit evidence. 📊 Compliance, With Receipts Not just files: timestamps, pipeline/version info, and input/output hashes to prove which file became which accessible version. Align with WCAG + PDF/UA, and show auditors/regulators what you did at scale. 💰 Economics Shift From high cost/page x small subset → low cost/page x documents people actually use. You eliminate one-off remediation projects, reduce backlog + accommodation response times, and make measurable monthly progress. ✅ For Leaders of Large Collections If a person with a print disability browsed your archive today: how many docs could they use, and what proof shows systemic progress (not just complaints)? If that answer is uncomfortable, pilot one collection/repository and see what happens when accessibility becomes a service that runs every time someone clicks “Accessible version.” Pneuma Solutions Access Information News Top Tech Tidbits
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