[Athen] Editing PDFs with a Screen Reader

[Robert Spangler]

I didn't think so, was just looking for confirmation.  It truly is sad,
though, because we blind people do hold jobs and it is important for us to
be able to perform these functions.


On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 9:13 AM Frederick, Kathryn A. <frederick.273 at osu.edu>
wrote:


> Unfortunately, no, creating an accessible tagged PDF is not possible for

> screen reader users…sad but true.

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> Wish I had better news,

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> Katie

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Robert Spangler

> *Sent:* Friday, August 31, 2018 9:05 AM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

> athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> *Subject:* [Athen] Editing PDFs with a Screen Reader

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> Hello:

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> I am in charge of our alternative formats program.  As a screen reader

> user, I do not find Adobe Acrobat Pro or Abbyy Finereader to be the most

> accessible.  I find them laggy, they sometimes freeze and I have not found

> a way to edit PDFs directly.

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> Is this possible for blind folks to do with a screen reader?  Ultimately,

> I need to be able to remediate PDFs.  I would like to do tagging, edit the

> text, do chapter breaks, etc.  I know I can do chapter breaks especially if

> there are bookmarks in the PDF, but I find this difficult to do, to

> determine the page numbers easily, if there are not bookmarks.

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> Normally, we have student workers who handle the editing and I just do the

> administrative stuff, such as sending out the texts.  We have summer

> classes, though, when the student workers are not here, so this task

> ultimately falls to me!

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> I would love to hear from people, especially blind people, who are working

> with remediating PDFs.  Is this possible?  Are there accessibility problems

> with these programs?  Admittedly, I've just accepted that most PDFs are not

> always edited adequately and I deal with it, but I don't want to tell my

> students this.  Haha.  I usually run it through OCR and that's sufficient

> for me except for when the order of the reading is incorrect.

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> Looking forward to responses.

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> Robert

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> Robert Spangler

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Robert Spangler
Disability Services Technical Support Specialist
rspangler1 at udayton.edu
Office of Learning Resources (OLR) - RL 023
Ryan C. Harris Learning & Teaching Center (LTC)
University of Dayton  | 300 College Park  |  Dayton, Ohio 45469-1302
Phone: 937-229-2066
Fax: 937-229-3270
Ohio Relay: 711 (available for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing)
Web Site: http://go.udayton.edu/learning
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