[Athen] Ally Checking PDFs

[Sine Rofofsky via athen-list]

Thank you all for your help - I'm going with recreating from scratch.

Sine

On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM JORDISON_SHAWN <JORDISON_SHAWN at smc.edu>
wrote:


> 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

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> On June 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM PDT 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>

> wrote:

>

>> My apologies, tagging - specifically headings and images.

>>

>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM Joe Feria-Galicia <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> 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

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