[Athen] Can we teach instructors the rudiments of accessibility?

[glen walker]

This typically happens because it's "how I've always done it".  The
professor could have easily posted the URL to the website rather than a
scanned PDF and it would have been much quicker.  But perhaps they already
had the PDF and were just in the mode of posting documents.

HTML always wins over PDF, even if the PDF is well formed/tagged.


On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 3:19 PM Deborah Armstrong <armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu>
wrote:


> I was slowly trawling through  a PDF that had OCR’d very badly, planning

> to email the resulting text to a student when I was done. It was a class

> handout she needed ASAP.

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> A typically disorganized professor had just assigned it and asked the

> students to read it today and discuss it tomorrow.

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> I got about halfway through, mindlessly zapping headers and footers until

> I actually read one and realized it was a web page.

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> I went to the web page and the entire article was there, in beautifully

> formatted and structured HTML!

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> Now why would a prof take a perfectly accessible article, print it scan it

> in to a PDF and put that up on the class home page – especially at the last

> minute!

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> Or maybe a better question to ask is why did stupid me not notice it was

> taken from a web page until I was halfway through cleaning it up?

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> --Debee

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