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<p>A couple corrections and a re-interpretation after re-reading
things this morning.</p>
<p>The media release was from May 17, the day before GAAD, not on
May 18.<br>
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<p><span class="ContentPaneDiv"><span class="ContentPaneDiv1">Adobe
isn't claiming they are going to release a stand-alone version
of the PDF Accessibility Checker . I must have heard that
somewhere else, but wherever I heard it, it doesn't sound like
that's true based on the media release. I'm not quite sure
what the release is saying about the checker - I think Adobe
needs someone with clear language training to help write their
media releases!: <br>
"</span></span><span class="ContentPaneDiv"><span
class="ContentPaneDiv1">The PDF Accessibility Checker,
available in Acrobat via an API, will enable organizations to
quickly and easily evaluate the accessibility of existing PDFs
at scale."</span></span></p>
<p><span class="ContentPaneDiv"><span class="ContentPaneDiv1">So the
PDF Accessibility Checker will probably also be an API
connecting to a cloud-based function? And when you use it in
Acrobat, it will use the cloud-based API, instead of running
locally on your computer using code run by Acrobat. It's too
bad that they are calling it "PDF Accessibility Checker",
since that will mean it gets confused with the per-existing
free PAC (PDF Accessibility Checker) tool.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="ContentPaneDiv"><span class="ContentPaneDiv1">I
guess we'll see.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="ContentPaneDiv"><span class="ContentPaneDiv1">Phil.<br>
</span></span><span class="ContentPaneDiv"><span
class="ContentPaneDiv1"></span></span></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-05-19 01:31, Philip Kiff wrote:<br>
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<p>So I found Adobe's media release [1] from yesterday (GAAD, May
18) that sparked the Forbes and other article (links at end of
emal).</p>
<p>Adobe has a page in their Developer documentation area [2] with
more info.<br>
</p>
<p>They have a free demo [3] (requires login) where you can test
it out.<br>
</p>
<p>I think that what Adobe are announcing is the new API aimed at
developers, not just a new iteration of the Auto-Tag feature
that has been built into Adobe Acrobat Pro for many years. <br>
</p>
<p>Adobe seems to be suggesting that this API is partially driven
by their so-called "AI" branded as "Sensei". It is not clear to
me that the AutoTag feature in Acrobat Pro runs the exact same
code as that in their (new?) API. Leaving aside the misleading
marketing language around the phrase "artificial intelligence",
I have the impression that Acrobat Pro's AutoTag feature depends
entirely on code run locally on your computer, whereas the
AutoTag API will run somewhere in Adobe's Cloud. Maybe the
results will be similar. Who knows.</p>
<p>Is that different than the AutoTag in the "new Acrobat" that
you're talking about Bevi?<br>
</p>
<p>Like Bevi and Susan, I find the AutoTag feature currently
included in Adobe Acrobat Pro to be mediocre. Though I often
still use it as a starting point when I am remediating files. <br>
</p>
<p>But I can see a value in having an API that developers can
incorporate into their own PDF generation processes or when
trying to automate large-scale remediation efforts on
collections of files. There are already some other document
accessibility companies that offer automated solutions for
remediation of PDF files in bulk, I think, so I expect this
signals that Adobe has decided to enter into this business
market more aggressively.</p>
<p>There are two other items worth noting that appear towards the
end of Adobe's press release. This fall, they plan to release a
stand-alone PDF accessibility checker and they plan to include
the AutoTag feature in the free Adobe Reader instead of it
requiring the purchase of the expensive and overpriced Adobe
Acrobat Pro. I'll be curious if the accessibility checker will
be a new product that checks against a full set of WCAG or
PDF/UA criteria to compete with offerings from CommonLook and
PAC, or if it will simply be a stand-alone version of the
rudimentary Accessibility Check feature currently built into
Adobe Acrobat Pro. <br>
</p>
<p>[1] Media Release: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/Media-Alert-Adobe-Scales-PDF-Accessibility-With-Adobe-Sensei-AI/default.aspx"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/Media-Alert-Adobe-Scales-PDF-Accessibility-With-Adobe-Sensei-AI/default.aspx</a>
<br>
</p>
<p>[2] Developer AutoTag API page: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/apis/pdf-accessibility-auto-tag/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/apis/pdf-accessibility-auto-tag/</a></p>
<p>[3] Demo Sign Up:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://acrobatservices.adobe.com/dc-accessibility-playground/main.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://acrobatservices.adobe.com/dc-accessibility-playground/main.html</a><br>
</p>
<p>Phil.</p>
<p>Philip Kiff <br>
D4K Communications<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-05-18 18:45, <a
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href="mailto:chagnon@pubcom.com" moz-do-not-send="true">chagnon@pubcom.com</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’ve been testing the new Acrobat for a
year or so, and keep testing the AutoTag feature.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It gets better with every new edition,
but it’s been around for a few years and we still can’t
depend on it for much.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It did do one PDF just ok, sort of: it
was a one-page document with one heading and several
paragraphs of body text. Tagged the title at the top of the
page as <H5>, which from our testing seems to be the
default heading tag AutoTag uses for the first heading.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Duh.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It seems to be sales hoopla from Adobe in
honor of GAAD day. Time will tell if we actually get
anything of substance from Acrobat.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sure wish Adobe would focus on making a
more accurate PDF from MS Office and InDesign so that we
don’t have to remediate the PDF after it’s made, but maybe
that’s asking too much!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] [EXT]Re: PDF remediation
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To quote from the article:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“For example, before using the new Adobe
API, a global financial firm spent more than 9 hours to make
each individual presentation slide deck accessible. With
Adobe’s new API, the firm has automated 70–80% of that
process.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Should we tell them? Should we tell them
that had they just created the file correctly in the first
place, it would have taken only a few minutes, and no 9 hour
remediation would have been required?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NINE HOURS? What the heck were they
doing? Oh yeah, they were using Adobe to fix an Adobe
file. That works.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">/sarcasm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] [EXT]Re: PDF remediation
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto">Here’s some
additional information released by Forbes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto">Adobe Wants To
Help Make PDF Documents More Accessible With AI-Based
Auto-Tag API | May 17, 2023 | Steven Aquino | Forbes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto"><a
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/2023/05/17/adobe-wants-to-help-make-pdf-documents-more-accessible-with-ai-based-auto-tag-api/?sh=5d0d4855b24c"
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<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Athen] [EXT]Re: PDF remediation
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Aaron,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t know why the article is being
posted as news. It’s grossly out of date and is from the
Microsoft news network portal. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto">Adobe's New AI
Automates PDF Accessibility Tags<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto"><a
href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/adobe-s-new-ai-automates-pdf-accessibility-tags/ar-AA1biX4V"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/adobe-s-new-ai-automates-pdf-accessibility-tags/ar-AA1biX4V</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3">The photo
captions reference software releases in 2013, “Adobe
announced Monday, May 6, 20<b><u>13</u></b>…” and the rest
is pure nonsense.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3">The
AutoTag feature has been in Acrobat Pro for quite a few
years. It’s had marginal improvement every year, but
overall still sucks at correctly tagging a document,
separating text from graphics, and creating a logical
reading order. We teach our clients and students how to
use it only when there’s no better way to remediate a bad
PDF.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We’re beta testers for Adobe and I don’t
see anything substantial on the horizon for Acrobat anytime
soon, other than an overhaul of the user interface (which is
getting bad reviews). We still have hope for the future,
however.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m chalking up this news release as
stale and inaccurate.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#D0CECE">— — —<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bevi Chagnon <b><span
style="color:#AEAAAA">| </span></b><span
style="color:#595959">Designer, Accessibility Technician</span><b><span
style="color:#AEAAAA"> |</span></b> <a
href="mailto:Chagnon@PubCom.com" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">Chagnon@PubCom.com</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#D0CECE">— — —<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>PubCom: <span style="color:#C00000">Technologists
for Accessible Design + Publishing</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">consulting <span style="color:#D0CECE">•</span>
training <span style="color:#D0CECE">•</span> development
<span style="color:#D0CECE">•</span> design <span
style="color:#D0CECE">•</span> sec. 508 services<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Upcoming classes</b> at <a
href="http://www.pubcom.com/classes"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.PubCom.com/<b>classes</b></a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="https://mailchi.mp/e694edcdfadd/class-discount-3266574"
moz-do-not-send="true">Latest blog-newsletter</a> – <b><a
href="https://www.pubcom.com/blog/2020_07-20/alt-text_part-1.shtml"
moz-do-not-send="true">Simple Guide to Writing
Alt-Text</a></b> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <<a
href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu"
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 17, 2023 5:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] [EXT]Re: PDF remediation
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto">Per recent
discussions, this article was just released 8 hours ago. I
think we should expect a number of updates from Adobe
regarding PDF accessibility, remediation and AI in the
coming months.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto">Adobe's New AI
Automates PDF Accessibility Tags<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto"><a
href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/adobe-s-new-ai-automates-pdf-accessibility-tags/ar-AA1biX4V"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/adobe-s-new-ai-automates-pdf-accessibility-tags/ar-AA1biX4V</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto">Aaron Di
Blasi, PMP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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