[Athen] Accessible PDFs without Acrobat

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Rachel,

Is it possible for your IT dept. to set up open portal access for faculty
to use Acrobat Pro while everyone's out working remotely and don't have
access to campus computers?

Wink Harner
Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production
The Foreign Type

Portland OR
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On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 11:22 AM Rachel Ford <raford3 at hfcc.edu> wrote:


> Hi Doug,

>

>

>

> My concern is actually our faculty (teachers), because many of them are

> using personal machines and don’t have access to campus for the time being.

> I’m looking at every alternative I can think of (such as not using PDFs,

> ways to create PDFs without Acrobat).

>

>

>

> Rachel Ford

>

> Web Accessibility Manager

>

> Henry Ford College

>

>

>

> [Athen] [EXTERNAL] - Accessible PDFs without Acrobat

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> Hayman, Douglass dhayman at olympic.edu

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> Rachel,

>

> My institution provided me with a laptop to work from home which has both

> Microsoft Office and also Acrobat Pro to let me work on remediation of

> documents. Are your remote staff having to use their own computers?

>

> Doug Hayman

> IT Accessibility Coordinator

> Information Technology

> Olympic College

> dhayman at olympic.edu

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> Hello All,

>

> With our faculty working from home, I've run into an issue where some

> faculty don't have access to Acrobat Pro to create accessible PDFs. Does

> anyone have a good alternative to Acrobat or just generally using PDFs? Any

> suggestions would be really helpful.

>

> Thank you,

>

> Rachel Ford

> Web Accessibility Manager

> Henry Ford College

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