[NABS-L] Pdf articles as an image

Tue Aug 21 01:04:24 UTC 2018

Well, what you said was, "It is really no problem to post 
properly tagged PDF documents which can be read by screen 
readers."  That's simply false.  If it were easy, it wouldn't be 
any hardship for us students to make the files accessible 
ourselves.  Maybe instructors need to do it anyway despite it 
being a lot of work (I think they do), but that's a very 
different thing from claiming that it's no big deal, and 
instructors are just choosing not to make things accessible.  And 
I think we need to acknowledge the kind of work we're demanding 
from instructors, most of whom are under payed and over worked 
adjuncts or under payed and over worked grad students.

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From: Emily Schlenker via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
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Subject: Re: [NABS-L] Pdf articles as an image

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:

 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.

 ----- Original Message -----
 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

 Hi. I am very sorry that youâ€™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. Iâ€™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.

 Emily Schlenker

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 On Aug 20, 2018, at 11:45 AM, Shikha via NABS-L 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 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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