[Athen] Ally Checking PDFs

[JORDISON_SHAWN via athen-list]

I just would like to add that Ally scans based off of the built in accessibility checker for Microsoft and Adobe.

Did you know that neither of those checkers adhere to Section 508, WCAG, or any other law/standard?

A passing document in ally does NOT mean the file is accessible, it just means it passes the built in accessibility check, which is really simple to do.

-Shawn

—
Shawn Jordison MS, Ed.D
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPO0yzGQJmAa290DjrByhwQ>
530-238-5645
Accessibility Subject Matter Expert
Book a Session with me<http://www.tidycal.com/shawnjordison0000>
YouTube channel featuring Accessibility Tutorials<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPO0yzGQJmAa290DjrByhwQ>
[Sent from Front]
On June 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM PDT athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu> wrote:


CAUTION: This email originated outside SMC.

Sine,
Upload the original Word and PowerPoint files to Ally first. Make sure the Ally scores are 100%. Then use Ally 's Alternative Format to export to Adobe Acrobat and upload those versions to your LMS.
If that doesn't work, you can email the original files, and I'll review them.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM Sine Rofofsky <sinerofofsky at gmail.com<mailto:sinerofofsky at gmail.com>> wrote:
My apologies, tagging - specifically headings and images.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM Joe Feria-Galicia <joeferia at berkeley.edu<mailto:joeferia at berkeley.edu>> wrote:
Sine,
Can you list the errors being flagged by Ally?

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM Sine Rofofsky via athen-list <athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu>> wrote:
I wanted to ask, as I'm having problems with Ally labelling PDFs created from accessible Word and PowerPoint documents, that when worked on in exported PDFs in Acrobat and coming up as accessible, are still being flagged.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to address this?

Sine Rofofsky (he/him)
Librarian
SUNY Schenectady
_______________________________________________
athen-list mailing list
athen-list at mailman22.u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at mailman22.u.washington.edu>
http://mailman22.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman22.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20250624/1c6d808a/attachment-0001.html>