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From: Terzian, Sharon
Date: Feb 6, 2018 8:48AM
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Hi Lisa, well it was sent to me to fix as a PDF, it's 24 pages and came from a Power Point. It has up to 100 items/errors to fix on EACH page, as in it deals with every piece of every graphic as a separate entity. On several pages, there are bulleted lists, all with designs behind them. And the order is a nightmare with up for (again) 100 things to either ignore or put in order. I know that it's easier to do in Power Point (as far as order, etc) even if I started over and cut and pasted each 'piece' instead of wrangling with it. Since it's also going to be translated into several other languages, I was just curious to know if it started as a full accessible (tagged, ordered, etc) Power Point, would it automatically be fine as a PDF.
And yes I have the full, paid version of Adobe.
Thanks!
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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
>
>
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> >
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