[Athen] JSTOR inaccessibility

[Howard Kramer]

As I mentioned, the files are locked so you can't run them through OmniPage in electronic format.

-Howard

---- Original message ----

>Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:39:21 -0400

>From: "Michael O'Brien" <obriemic at hvcc.edu>  

>Subject: Re: [Athen] JSTOR inaccessibility  

>To: "'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'" <athen at athenpro.org>

>

>       If these items need to be scanned, why not get a

>   program such as Open Book, which converts the images

>   to text, directly, rather than printing out the

>   pages and re-scanning and converting them?  This, of

>   course, assumes JSTOR isn't doing its part to make

>   its items truly accessible.

>    

>   Mike

>    

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>   From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org

>   [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of

>   Howard Kramer

>   Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:29 PM

>   To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education

>   Network'

>   Subject: [Athen] JSTOR inaccessibility

>

>   Hello Folks:

>

>    

>

>   Has anyone else run into the problem of JSTOR no

>   longer providing Tiff versions of their articles.

>   You can download the pdf but it seems locked in the

>   sense that it can't be read by JAWS (it's an image

>   pdf), it's not tagged, and you can't run it through

>   OmniPage. All you can do is print a hard copy and

>   then scan it. You can request them to tag the

>   document but they indicate this is a 3 day

>   turnaround. This all seems like a major downgrade

>   from past access.

>

>    

>

>   I sent an e-mail off to them (they don't list a

>   phone number). They have a whole page on the

>   accessibility of the new site and it's compliance

>   with ADA & 508 but a 3 day turnaround does not seem

>   ADA/508 compliant.

>

>    

>

>   -Howard

>

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>

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>

>   Howard Kramer

>   Assistive Technology Lab Coordinator

>   AT Conference Coordinator

>   Disability Services

>   CU-Boulder, 107 UCB

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