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Re: Accessible College Forms

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From: Ron
Date: Nov 5, 2015 3:37PM

The common app based on our last eval continues to have significant
accessibility issues. They have made some progress but like many other
system vendors fail to get is that accessibility with a screen reader is
just a piece of the picture.

Ron Stewart

On Thursday, November 5, 2015, John E Brandt < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I have a client (who will remain nameless) who needs to make sure all of
> the
> college admissions forms they are using are accessible. It appears they are
> using old forms created with Quark and saved as PDFs. Clearly these are not
> accessible. I have suggested using an on-line application system, but I am
> not sure if they have the capacity.
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> What are folks around the US using for college admissions forms to meet
> accessibility standards?
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> It appears a number of institutions are using Common App
> http://www.commonapp.org/ Given their client list, I would think that this
> system meets accessibility standards. Anyone have ideas?
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> ~j
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> John E. Brandt
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