ADA Accessibility: Vision impaired students may read articles by "read aloud" software. However, PDFs can present some issues. PDF accessibility depends on how the articles were scanned or created. Please follow these guidelines when creating a PDF that is ADA compliant for your students. PDFs should be created with OCR (optical character recognition). OCR allows screen reader software to read PDFs.

1. ADA COMPLIANCE GUIDE
CREATING AN OCR PDF DOCUMENT
Using Acrobat to create an OCR text PDF document
USING ACROBAT TO CREATE AN OCR TEXT DOCUMENT
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ADA Accessibility
Vision impaired students may read articles by "read aloud" software. However, PDFs can present some issues. PDF
accessibility depends on how the articles were scanned or created. Please follow these guidelines when creating a
PDF that is ADA compliant for your students.
PDFs should be created with OCR (optical character recognition). OCR allows screen reader software to read PDFs.
If you are unsure if a specific file has OCR, you can often just try and highlight the text for pasting into another
document. If you are able to copy and paste from within it, it has been OCR’d.
In Acrobat XI Pro click on the Tools Panel.
Click on Recognize Text to expand the menu,
then click on In this File.
On the dialogue pop-up, select All pages
then click OK to process the document.
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING STEPS TO CONVERT PDF TO AN OCR COMPATIBLE PDF:
A progress bar will appear on the bottom of the document
as it processes. When the bar disappears, your document
is now OCR compatible. Lastly, Save your PDF document to
save the changes.
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