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<div>I just would like to add that Ally scans based off of the built in accessibility checker for Microsoft and Adobe. </div>
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<div>Did you know that neither of those checkers adhere to Section 508, WCAG, or any other law/standard? </div>
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<div>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. </div>
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On June 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM PDT <a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
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<div dir="ltr">Sine,
<div>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.</div>
<div>If that doesn't work, you can email the original files, and I'll review them.</div>
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<div class="fa2jmxrg" dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM Sine Rofofsky <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:sinerofofsky@gmail.com" target="_blank">sinerofofsky@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">My apologies, tagging - specifically headings and images.</div>
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<div class="fa2jmxrg" dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM Joe Feria-Galicia <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:joeferia@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">joeferia@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Can you list the errors being flagged by Ally?</div>
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<div class="fa2jmxrg" dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM Sine Rofofsky via athen-list <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div>Does anyone have any suggestions on how to address this? </div>
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