We’ve covered how to turn PDF’s into Accessible Educational Materials (AEM) and what it means to have your PDF’s accessible to learners with various disabilities, including those that use screen reader and text to speech technology.
What if educators leveraged these tools as an intentional forethought to meet the needs of all learners as opposed to waiting to retrofit? We’d have an opportunity to make those “Pesky PDF’s” more universally accessible. While we can’t quite do away with the PDF format (yet), there are a plethora of apps and extensions that can help make PDF’s more accessible for all. Below is an updated list of apps and extensions to help make PDF’s more accessible.
Pdf Apps and Extensions
Apple IOS Scanning Apps
- Microsoft Office Lens with Immersive Reader
- ABBY TextGrabber 6
- FineScanner PDF Scanner +OCR
- iScanner- PDF Document Scanner App
- OCR Scanner- Images & Documents to text
- Scanner Pro by Readdle
- Doc Scan
- Speechify
Apple IOS Annotation Apps That Promote Accessibility
Chrome Apps and Extensions for Accessibility
- Read and Write for Google Chrome
- Co:Writer Universal
- Snap and Read Universal
- Convert PDF to Google Docs in Google Docs
- Capti Voice
- Kami
- Google Keep
- Helperbird
Online OCR and Software OCR Tools
Other Resources
- National Center on AEM
- Accessible Digital Documents resources on Maine CITE
- Accessible Web Design resources on Maine CITE
- Create PDF’s From Microsoft Office – Adobe.com
