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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Here are my thoughts Brian about the last part of your email.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Your director sounds like they are wanting to provide materials that are more of a universal design mentality where anyone can use any file without workarounds
on the user’s end. This is the ultimate goal that I personally strive for as an adaptive technologist.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">However, our role in DS is to provide academic accommodations/adjustments – individual solutions for students who have a disability, who are working with your
office and have run into barriers. This means providing alt format for students that have some kind of impact with texts. I would say the bare minimum is to provide a version, that is accessible and usable, to your students who are eligible for alt format.
This could include blind/low-vision students, students with traumatic brain injuries, students who have mobile limitations, students with learning disabilities, students with ADHD (the list depends on your school/office culture). If we fail to do this, we
are at risk. I ensure that these individual solutions are addressed first. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Anything beyond academic accommodations (like making all PDFs text selectable and available for ANYONE, regardless of disability, in the class to be able to use
text to speech) seems to be more of the universal design model. Which model, again, I strive for but cannot guarantee. Typically, when working towards universal design, campus culture has to change and support of administrators on your campus is paramount.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thus, I will tag a PDF for a student who uses a screen reader. But I do not yet have the resources to tag all PDFs received from a publisher for each of my students.
Often, a student with a learning disability does not need tags in PDFs. In that case, I provide them what they NEED, not what I would ideally WANT to provide.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hope that helps,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kluesner, Bryon<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 18, 2016 4:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> athen-list@u.washington.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Tag PDF files<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi all. Does anyone have a quick "Cheat Sheet" on how to tag and make Publisher PDF/Word files accessible for users of screen readers and Text to Speech programs they are willing to share? My Director would like
to make all alternate texts accessible before providing them to students. I see a need for students who are blind using JAWS, but is it necessary to make ALL PDF files from publishers accessible? Any words of advise or encouragement is welcome. In a typical
semester, I have over 100 students and approximately 300-350 book requests sent to publishers. I am a 1-person Adaptive Technology Coordinator who may have 1-3 students assistants I can rely on.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Bryon Kluesner, RhD</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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