[CATO] [EXTERNAL] - Common Look Tools?

[Hayman, Douglass]

Amy,

I use CommonLook PDF and it works great over using just Acrobat Pro, or Equidox which I tried and was unhappy with.  I'd be glad to demo how I use it with screen sharing on sometime.  Costs about $800 which includes online training to for learning the program.

With PDF files one can make complex, accessible tables where Word doesn't have that capability.

Doug Hayman
IT Accessibility Coordinator
Information Technology
Olympic College
dhayman at olympic.edu<mailto:dhayman at olympic.edu>
(360) 475-7632



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Hi CATO friends,

I'm in an Allyant webinar - they make the CommonLook tools for making office, PDF, etc. accessible.

They got my attention when one of the presenters (who is blind) said they would 100% choose an accessible PDF over a Word doc (made as accessible as the Word accessibility tool directs). That blew my mind b/c that is the exact opposite of what I have heard users who are blind have said in the past. Just trying to figure out if it's a sales tactic or that their PDF remediation tools are really that good.

Are any of you using these tools? Thoughts?

Thank you!
Amy

Amy Rovner, MPH RD
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