[NABS-L] Pdf articles as an image

[Emily Schlenker]

Actually, I work in the media resource center at my university and spend a great deal of time talking to people whose job it is to make these things accessible and train the professors how to either do so or find other material. I never said it was easy, I just said it was not necessary to have an inaccessible version of most articles and that people can and should be trained to do better. Apologism and accessibility are often not compatible.

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> On Aug 20, 2018, at 5:16 PM, Karl Martin Adam via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hi Emily, It's actually not so simple.  Most of the time when an instructor posts an image PDF, that was the way the article was available to them through the library or that's what their scanner (often used by a random student research assistant produced).  It isn't any easier for the instructor to convert such a document than it is for us blind students to do so.
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> From: Emily Schlenker via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
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> Date sent: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:03:02 -0500
> Subject: Re: [NABS-L] Pdf articles as an image
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> Hi. I am very sorry that you’re having to go through this, it is completely unnecessary for articles to be posted this way and for the disability office to be this slow. What I would suggest, even though it is definitely not ideal, is to utilize windows OCR that is built into windows 10. I’m not sure it will work, because I have not had to mess with one of these types of documents in a few months, but when you open the PDF hit insert are. You should hear your screen reader say recognizing and then it should read for you. Just so you know, it is wrong for your instructor to be utilizing this type of PDF formatting. It is really no problem to post properly tagged PDF documents which can be read by screen readers. Unfortunately, most faculty is not aware of this, and most universities are not offering the proper training. May I ask what college or university you are studying at?
> The very best of luck to you.
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> Emily Schlenker
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> On Aug 20, 2018, at 11:45 AM, Shikha via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hello,
> I have pdf articles as an image every week for one of my classes. What is the quickest way to read them.
> The disability office is being super slow to convert them in to a word document.
> Thanks,
> 
> Shikha Desai
> Bachelor of Social Work
> Georgia State University
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