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From: Peter Shikli
Date: Apr 28, 2017 8:27PM

Krista,

These are great. Besides digging for tags, they even have accessibility
story content worth the students' attention.

With accessibility the topic, there probably are not many accessibility
mistakes to correct in the PDFs. Perhaps I will sneak some in. Even
better, I will ask them to sneak them in, and then see if their
colleagues can find/fix them.

If you come across PDFs with forms and tables, those would be
particularly interesting.

Thanks,
Peter


Krista Greear wrote on 4/28/2017 6:04 PM:
>
> If I had known you were looking for tagged text selectable PDFs, I
> would have saved my OCR sermon for another unsuspecting listserv
> question ;-)
>
> Try these 4. They are tagged, text selectable PDFs. I haven't verified
> how inaccessible/accessible they are but there are some good variety
> within the tags like story, section, article, link, span, and so on.
>
> *KRISTA GREEAR*
>
> Assistant Director
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> *From:*Peter Shikli [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
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>
> Krista,
>
> You're indeed right about OCR being a big job and sometimes the first
> step in making PDFs accessible. We are lucky in that the inmates, yes
> I'm training accessibility to prison inmates, already have an
> affordable, nearby scanning and OCR operation that I can turn to for
> that. Unfortunately, OCR doesn't introduce the tags I'd like my
> students to have to dig through.
>
> Sincerely,
> Peter Shikli
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> Krista Greear wrote on 4/28/2017 5:27 PM:
>
> I didn't understand you were looking for a specific kind of
> inaccessible PDFs.
>
> I shared a series of image-based PDFs, realistic documents that
> many of us encounter in higher ed. WebAIM's webpage assumes you
> are starting with a text-based PDF. This could be setting a false
> expectation. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) can be a large
> part of the remediation process and is certainly a necessary first
> step in remediating image-based PDFs. After that, tags, headings,
> tables, etc. can be addressed.
>
> What you could do is use the files I gave you, have your student
> use Adobe Acrobat Pro's built-in OCR engine to make a text-based
> file, then complete the exercises on WebAIM's webpage. Or use an
> OCR engine like ABBYY FineReader or OmniPage to turn the image PDF
> into a text-based one, then complete the exercises.
>
> Sounds like a lot of work? You are completely right. Document
> remediation is not for the faint of heart.
>
> I would strongly argue that teaching someone about OCR is
> imperative. While it may not be the bulkiest step in the process,
> OCR can become one of the most time consuming parts. My employee
> spent 3 hours OCRing the attached 32 page PDF, then had to pass it
> off to another team member to remediate the headings, tables,
> tags, etc.
>
> Take luck!
>
> *KRISTA GREEAR*
>
> Assistant Director
>
> Disability Resources for Students
>
> 011 Mary Gates Hall
>
> Box 352808
> Seattle, WA 98195-2808
>
> Direct: 206.221.4136 / Main: 206.543.8924
>
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> *From:*Peter Shikli [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> *Sent:* Friday, April 28, 2017 5:04 PM
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> WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> *Subject:* Re: [WebAIM] Sample Inaccessible PDFs
>
> Krista,
> Whereas one of your dropbox files was a true PDF with tag markup,
> the rest were images only inside a PDF container -- unless I
> missed something. With the images-only files, I can't ask my
> students to go through tutorials like WebAIM's
> <http://webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/acrobat>; as exercises to
> check and fix accessibility. That's the kind of practice they need.
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> Krista Greear wrote on 4/28/2017 9:20 AM:
>
> I keep a collection just for this purpose! See the Dropbox
> link with 18 files
> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/unu8vgsm2xp88da/inaccessible%20PDF%20examples.zip?dl=0>.
>
>
> KRISTA GREEAR
>
> Assistant Director
>
> Disability Resources for Students
>
> 011 Mary Gates Hall
>
> Box 352808
>
> Seattle, WA 98195-2808
>
> Direct: 206.221.4136 / Main: 206.543.8924
>
> <EMAIL REMOVED> / <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> />
> http://disability.uw.edu <http://disability.uw.edu>;
>
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