Showing posts with label Word docs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Word docs. Show all posts

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Emailing docs to visually-impaired student

Just in case Christian (the blind student with the seeing-eye dog) returns for more help, the following may be helpful. His computer can't read aloud from PDFs, so he needs text copied and pasted into a word doc. I found that when I click PDF full text in ACS, I can't highlight/copy but if I click "download PDF" (bottom left) and open in Acrobat, I can do this, and then paste into word. It is also important to make sure that the pasted article includes the citation information -- in one case it did not, so I grabbed that and added it to the word doc. He is also OK with a link to an HTML text, so when HTML is available that may be more convenient, although I ended up pasting most of the articles into word regardless. Paul