[Athen] Zoning a Book

[Andrea L. Dietrich]

They're probably talking about using either Adobe Acrobat and the PDF Accessibility Reading Order tool, or some OCR tool like ABBYY Finereader. In both of those tools you "zone" a document by basically drawing boxes around blocks of text and choosing what type of text they are - for example, you would select "Greetings," in your message and choose "text" as the zone type. Then if there was a table later in the document you could select that and choose "table." Images get zoned "image," etc.

-Andi :)
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Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 10:50 AM
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Subject: [Athen] Zoning a Book

Greetings,
    I am new to the field and my predecessor makes a few references to "zoning a book" in their notes but not much detail is included.  Googling has only presented me with other forms of zoning, so could someone please explain what "zoning" is in reference to making a book more accessible, as well as some tips for this process.

Thanks,
Amy Willard
Accessible Technology Coordinator|ADA Compliance
Metropolitan Community College
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