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From: L Snider
Date: Feb 6, 2018 8:34AM

Hi Sharon,

NVDA is pretty important as well. If you haven't seen this survey already,
it shows what some people are using.
https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey7/

In my experience the use of products depends on country, region, local
preferences. However, I do see JAWS and NVDA used the most. Windows-Eyes
was popular in places I lived, but that is now JAWS.

Also magnification and voice recognition (ex:Dragon) are important for
testing.

Moodle is much better than it was and Blackboard as well. Both have made
significant improvements the last two years. However, interactive can still
be a problem, as you mentioned. It all depends what you want to do.

Can you expand on why the PDF is problematic? I am curious why you are
thinking of converting it back if the PowerPoint was okay.

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 8:39 AM, Terzian, Sharon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi
> I have to adapt a PDF that came from a Power Point to be ADA compliant (I
> know how to do it, this was outsourced to me).
>
> If the Power Point was ADA to begin with (tagged/ordered correctly, etc)
> would it automatically be okay when converted/saved to a PDF (it's a
> nightmare in PDF and I can get it as Power Point file if it helps)?
> They also will be translating it to several languages so I thought that if
> it's fine in Power Point, that part would be easier/less time consuming as
> well.
>
> A Colleague uses a program called Articulate - Story Lines (
> https://articulate.com/award-winning-storyline-360) to create interactive
> learning modules. When she started using it, I spent time on the phone
> with the vendor, who initially sold it as being ADA and it's not (JAWS
> can't read it, essentially it ends up being a fancy flash file and if I try
> and adjust the backend HTML code, it won't work), and after our
> conversation, they admitted it wasn't.
>
> Are there any true compliant course module creators out there that you
> know of?
> Also, just in case not, I'm looking into other screen readers for less
> money. Is JAWS still the be all and end all as far as having
> documents/websites work well with it?
> I found NVDA and a friend mentioned ZoomText.
>
> Thank you all,
>
> Sharon Terzian
> Webmistress/Accessible Content/Sherlock Center
> Adjunct Professor/CIS/College of Business
> Rhode Island College
> www.sherlockcenter.org
>
>
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