Many thanks for your response, Adrian - very useful.
One more (associated) question to the list, if I may, regarding software to assist with accessibility. We are currently using Acrobat DC for tagging documents, though our early experience is that its attempts to automatically recognise tags is fairly mixed, which results in staff manually tagging. Can I check whether list members here use DC, or would recommend other software, for this purpose?
Kind regards,
Peter
University of Brighton
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Hi
At Anglia Ruskin University it is university policy that all teaching materials must be fully accessible as an anticipatory adjustment. This removes the need for students to request special support (i.e. forcing them to disclose their disability in order to be able to study) and also allows other students such as international students to use the networked text-to-speech to support their studies.
We are working on embedding the idea in all staff that accessibility should be a part of their daily working habit and not as something that has to be done as an additional task.
Best wishes
Adrian
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Coyne
Sent: 12 July 2017 09:27
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Subject: Scanned extracts and tagging
Dear all,
First time posting – hope you can provide some guidance around legal requirements and policy in relation to provision of scanned extracts (e.g. articles).
At Brighton we’re looking to make scanned course documents (PDFs) accessible, through OCR and tagging, using Acrobat DC.
My question is do institutions tag all scanned documents, or only those which have been specifically requested, e.g. by academic or student support staff, to support individual students in need.
A little context; we have begun by looking to tag everything using Acrobat DC, but have quickly realised just how much additional time it requires. We want to support all students in the fullest manner, but wondering whether a broad or targeted approach is taken elsewhere.
Many thanks,
Peter
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