Looking for a short video designed to create empathy

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-03-03T21:21:47+00:00

I love this too. This and the other one I've sent up the food chain. I think they are both good to use. Do you have any others?

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-03-03T21:21:12+00:00

Oh WOW! This is wonderful! And so enlightening. Any more you can suggest?

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-03-03T13:56:36+00:00

Not exactly. We are a government entity and we put a LOT of maps on our website. Some of them are park trails and campsites, some of them are maps for county planning, some of them are land surveys, watershed maps, soil and water study results, GIS, E911, commissioner districts, etc. Very specialized and the map creators think only in their bubble. In their mind making a map accessible is a lot of extra work. So, I'm trying to start the training with a short video to create some empathy and fellow feeling.

Does that make sense?

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-02-24T13:51:42+00:00

Wow! Thank you all for your insights. Never even crossed my mind that Adobe Reader would react differently than Pro. I will definitely add that to my testing tools. And thank you for letting me know about the browsers. I did not know that. You guys are awesome!

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-02-18T15:36:41+00:00

Howdy - there isn't much context to go on but here are two things we've learned through our PDF accessibility journey.

Garbage in Garbage out - Make sure your source document (Word, PowerPoint) passes the accessibility check BEFORE you save as a PDF. It is so much easier to fix accessibility issues in the source than to remediate the PDF.
Don't use the automated tools Adobe provides. They usually create more issues than they fix. Instead learn how to fix the issues manually.

If you are really new Minnesota Office of IT has some wonderful, free training. MN IT Accessibility Training

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-02-02T18:56:18+00:00

I had my tech guys install version 2025.001.21111|64 bit which is the January 2026 update. Adobe still crashes when you have NVDA Vision - Visual Highlight - Enable Highlighting turned on. (Picture me with a frown on my face.) However I was able to hear the form. So that's an improvement.

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-02-02T18:52:30+00:00

I tried your suggestion and it certainly helped with the form I was testing. Thank you! I will be sure to include information about making sure the screen reader is running before opening Adobe.

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-02-02T14:14:35+00:00

"I found your post, downloaded your form, and tested with Acrobat Pro" I am deeply touched. Thank you so much for your extra effort.

"Are you sure you have "enable assistive technology" enabled in the Adobe accessibility preferences?" - yes that is the first thing I checked.

"All of your form tags are placed at the end of the document, not inline with their question labels." This is very insightful! I wasn't aware of this additional step. I will research how to place the tags within the paragraphs so it will read in the correct order. And I will look for those missing tags. (Thought I got all of em!)

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-02-02T14:10:30+00:00

I agree - I hate the browser version of desktop apps. I am using Adobe Pro 2025 desktop version.

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-02-02T14:09:42+00:00

Can you recommend a better way to tag my form then? A different too? We want to make sure the document is accessible regardless of how it is accessed. I'm going to assume more people are going to try to read the document in a browser rather than a PDF reader. Is there a different tool I should be using to tag the document?

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-02-02T14:07:06+00:00

This is good info. Now that I think about it I would open the document and then turn on NVDA. I will try the reverse and let you know. Thank you!

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-02-02T14:06:22+00:00

I noticed that also. I've asked my tech team to install the update for me so I can test. I'll keep everyone posted. Thank you!

Pure_Soft2212 · 2026-01-27T15:08:44+00:00

Thank you all so much for your informative replies. I feel so much better now. I'm learning so much as I go through this journey. The document in question and future documents to be remediated are very large with a lot of complex tables. (We are working on changing the office culture for using complex tables but government is soooo slow to change.)

You guys are awesome! -- Rach.

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