[Athen] Question regarding "Abby" training

[Ron]

Actually I was being serious, if folks are using are finding any of Abby's
other features useful. I would like to hear about it. I do train on using
its automation features, but if there are others.....

Abby has some really great capabilities they just have not been well
implimented for alt format production.

Ron Stewart


On Friday, December 19, 2014, Dimac, Marcie <mdimac at kent.edu
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mdimac at kent.edu');>> wrote:


>   LOL, Nice point. Just trying to gauge what the general census is on

> exactly “how” to use Abby to speed along the process of conversion to e-text

>  Marcie Dimač, M.A. Ed.

>

>  Coordinator, Assistive Technology

> Student Accessibility Services

> Kent State University

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>   From: Ron <ronrstewart at gmail.com>

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> Date: Friday, December 19, 2014 at 4:02 PM

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> Subject: Re: [Athen] Question regarding "Abby" training

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>  Good afternoon, I would be interested in finding out what these other

> robust features are.

>

>  Ron Stewart

>

> On Friday, December 19, 2014, Dimac, Marcie <mdimac at kent.edu> wrote:

>

>>  Afternoon all!

>>

>>  I have been in my position for about six months now, and have begun to

>> supervise the person who is in charge of e-text.  I recently realized that

>> while we have Abby (v. 9), we are only using it to scan in books that we

>> have spliced into Word documents and editing within Word.

>>

>>  I would like to work with her on using all of the robust features in

>> Abby to render a document accessible (rather than putting the text in Word)

>> and was wondering if anyone knows of any good (and potentially free) online

>> training resources/websites/videos for “how to use” Abby to render docs

>> accessible.

>>

>>  I attended the two-day training while in CO for the conference and it

>> was EXCELLENT, but, I would like to have a resource (preferably some vids)

>>  that my e-text coordinator could refer to often when using the program as

>> a resource to refresh her memory on how to use the program.

>>

>>  Any insight is welcomed!!

>>

>>  Happy holidays!

>>

>>  Marcie Dimač, M.A. Ed.

>>

>>  Coordinator, Assistive Technology

>> Student Accessibility Services

>> Kent State University

>> Ground Floor, Rm. 23

>> DeWeese Center

>> P.O. Box 5190

>> Kent, Ohio 44242

>>

>>  Phone: 330-672-3391

>> Fax: 330-672-3763

>> Email: mdimac at kent.edu

>>

>>  www.kent.edu/sas

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