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Thanks, Michael for sending this to be. It will be very helpful to see how these vendors respond do a document like this one.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">Policy Associate – Accessible IT Coordinator</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 17, 2023 4:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Distribution List for the Committee for Accessible Technology Oversight <cato@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Hanscom, Michael <mhanscom@highline.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CATO] I need your help - send me your inaccessible documents, please!</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi Monica,</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Here’s one that I was just working on for a student. It’s a doozy!</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Atkinson Hyperlegible"">Michael Hanscom (he/him), Accessible Technology Program Manager, Highline College</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Atkinson Hyperlegible""><a href="mailto:mhanscom@highline.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">mhanscom@highline.edu</span></a> | Building 25-516 | 206.592.3383</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Atkinson Hyperlegible"">Accessible Technology Zoom Lobby: Wed. 3:30-4:15 p.m., Thu. 3-3:45 p.m.
<a href="https://highline.zoom.us/my/mhanscom"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://highline.zoom.us/my/mhanscom</span></a></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Atkinson Hyperlegible"">Access Services: 206.592.3857 |
<a href="mailto:access@highline.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">access@highline.edu</span></a> |
<a href="https://access.highline.edu/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://access.highline.edu</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> CATO <cato-bounces@lists.ctc.edu> <b>On Behalf Of
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 11, 2023 3:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> cato@lists.ctc.edu<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Monica Olsson <molsson@sbctc.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CATO] Fwd: I need your help - send me your inaccessible documents, please!</p>
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open attachments unless you validate the sender and know the content is safe. If you are unsure, contact the Help Desk at x4357 (206-592-4357) or email
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 11, 2023 2:00:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Disability Services CTC <<a href="mailto:dssc@lists.ctc.edu">dssc@lists.ctc.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Monica Olsson <<a href="mailto:molsson@sbctc.edu">molsson@sbctc.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Dssc] I need your help - send me your inaccessible documents, please!</span>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:black">As you may recall, I have been pushing the Department of Enterprise Services (DES) to help SBCTC in identifying a vendor for a state-wide contract to provide accessible
PDF remediation services for our colleges, especially for those documents that are complex or too time consuming for the DS office/other college offices to remediate in a timely fashion.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:black">In my ideal world, DES will run an RFP process to identify a vendor that is known and reputable within the accessibility world, and I have shared several examples with
them. In reality, DES won't run an RFP until they are certain that the current vendors contracted with the state cannot meet this request. So, I am now vetting two different companies to see what they can do.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:black">The ask:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:black">I need to send each company a few different inaccessible PDF documents that represent the needs or "use cases" of our students requiring accessible documents. I have already
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<li class="x_MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">E-textbooks, research papers, or other documents that contains things like math equations, scientific symbols, graphs, images, etc.</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Documents that are more than 10 pages long</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Documents with unique layout and structure such as reports or posters from Marketing departments.</span></li></ul>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:black">Please send these my way, folks, and thank you in advance for your help!</span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><img width="60" height="113" align="left" alt="Title: SBCTC logo - Description: Compass" style="width:.625in; height:1.177in" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:image004.png@01DA0119.878F0C00"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#002060">Monica
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#002060">Policy Associate – Accessible IT Coordinator</span><span style="color:#201F1E"></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#002060; background:white">•Email: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#0563C1"><a href="mailto:molsson@sbctc.edu" target="_blank"><b>molsson@sbctc.edu</b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#002060"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#002060">•
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<p style="background:white; text-align:start"><span class="x_xcontentpasted0"><span style="color:#242424">Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web</span></span><span style="color:#242424"></span></p>
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