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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Hi Doug,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">I’d love to see a CommonLook demo at some point. I’ve been learning ABBYY FineReader, which has been kind of a good news/bad news situation (good news: relatively inexpensive
and can get the job done; bad news: buggy and persnickety). In the end I may have to keep working with what I have, because a $100 license is much easier to argue for than an $800 license, but if CommonLook is good enough, then just maybe….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">From:</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"> CATO <cato-bounces@lists.ctc.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Hayman, Douglass via CATO<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 25, 2024 11:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Distribution List for the Committee for Accessible Technology Oversight <cato@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Hayman, Douglass <dhayman@olympic.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CATO] [EXTERNAL] - Common Look Tools?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Amy,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With PDF files one can make complex, accessible tables where Word doesn’t have that capability.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Doug Hayman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">IT Accessibility Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">(360) 475-7632 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">From:</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"> CATO <<a href="mailto:cato-bounces@lists.ctc.edu">cato-bounces@lists.ctc.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rovner, Amy via CATO<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 25, 2024 10:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:cato@lists.ctc.edu">cato@lists.ctc.edu</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Rovner, Amy <<a href="mailto:arovner@shoreline.edu">arovner@shoreline.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] - [CATO] Common Look Tools?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi CATO friends,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m in an Allyant webinar – they make the CommonLook tools for making office, PDF, etc. accessible.
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are any of you using these tools? Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amy<o:p></o:p></p>
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