Event Title
Two Text Accessibility Cases: Wrangling PDF Articles and PowerPoint Slideshows for Machine Readability
Location
McCartney Hall 204
Start Date
1-8-2019 8:30 AM
End Date
1-8-2019 9:30 AM
Description
Actual accessibility for an online course requires effortful work and the support of the subject matter expert (SME) / instructor. This presentation includes two cases: wrangling a tough PDF to readability through Adobe Photoshop -> (Adobe Acrobat Reader DC vs. Microsoft’s Cognitive Services and its OCR/optical character recognition application). Another case-in-point is how to create an accessible PowerPoint slideshow to enable the built-in Narrator screen reader to see the words in order to read. This presentation introduces the challenges and offers a pseudo- and limited- and effortful- solution which harnesses .jpgs and MS Word as a path to lecture accessibility.
It's one thing to "talk the (accessibility) talk," but the "walking the walk" is costly in knowledge, effort, skill, and time...but necessary. Technology can be brought to bear on some parts of the challenges, but the technology still has its serious limits in many cases...
Two Text Accessibility Cases: Wrangling PDF Articles and PowerPoint Slideshows for Machine Readability
McCartney Hall 204
Actual accessibility for an online course requires effortful work and the support of the subject matter expert (SME) / instructor. This presentation includes two cases: wrangling a tough PDF to readability through Adobe Photoshop -> (Adobe Acrobat Reader DC vs. Microsoft’s Cognitive Services and its OCR/optical character recognition application). Another case-in-point is how to create an accessible PowerPoint slideshow to enable the built-in Narrator screen reader to see the words in order to read. This presentation introduces the challenges and offers a pseudo- and limited- and effortful- solution which harnesses .jpgs and MS Word as a path to lecture accessibility.
It's one thing to "talk the (accessibility) talk," but the "walking the walk" is costly in knowledge, effort, skill, and time...but necessary. Technology can be brought to bear on some parts of the challenges, but the technology still has its serious limits in many cases...