Scanned text = image = unreadable…oh my! Did you know?

Digital scans of physical text are encoded like images and are not readable by screen reading technology. OCR (optical character recognition) converts a scanned document into a format that allows people who use assistive technologies to engage with the text, plus it benefits all users by making the document searchable.

Find an alternative resource or use the OCR tools in Adobe Acrobat to turn a scan into an accessible PDF with selectable text and a logical reading order. For a deeper dive check out The Accessibility Guy’s page on How to Make a Scanned PDF Accessible Using Adobe Acrobat.