[Athen] CommonLook and screen readers

David Andrews dandrews920 at comcast.net
Sun Apr 25 16:58:45 PDT 2021


There is woman who is a PDF guru, her name is Karen McCall and I
think she said it was accessible -- although I have never used it myself.

Dave

At 04:11 PM 4/21/2021, you wrote:

>Content-Language: en-US

>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

>

>boundary="_000_SA1PR09MB7472DD37A3B97D27EDAAD3B4E0479SA1PR09MB7472namp_"

>

>A friend has asked me if I know anybody that uses CommonLook for

>tagging PDFs who is a screen reader user. I don't, but perhaps one

>of you do? He's been using Acrobat, but there's a number of things

>he can't do (beyond things that require sight, such as seeing if

>color alone is being used to convey meaning, authoring alt text,

>etc.) and is wondering if CommonLook would be a worthwhile investment.

>

>

>

>Thank you!

>

>sb

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>Sarah E. Bourne

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>Director of IT Accessibility

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>1 Ashburton Place, 8th Floor, Boston, MA 02108

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>Office: (617) 626-4502 (messages only)

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