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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-03-13 | 19 | ITEM 3-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6:30 PM Jenn Barrett: Okay. So I'm going to talk to Laurie about a potential meeting that we might be able to have this discussion and I'll get back to you guys. Arnold Brillinger: Because this whole idea of accessibility is a very large topic. It could be accessibility to storefronts and things but it's also to programs and to the various activities that are happening in Alameda. And so, we need to make sure that these services, the activities are all accessible to people no matter who they are in Alameda. Leslie Morrison: So, something as little as when you post a photograph, you should hover over the photograph and it should pop up a description of what the photograph is of because people with vision impairments can't see what that photograph is. So, it has to be built in, whenever you post a photo or any sort of an image that there has to be a descriptor of what that is. PDFs are inaccessible, footnotes are inaccessible. Jennifer Roloff: Because they can't be read by the machine? Leslie Morrison: The screen reader can't read them. Bullets are inaccessible. Susan Deutsch: But PDFs can be read now. Leslie Morrison: Not by all screen readers. And again, I'm not an expert in this area but it's the kind of stuff that we went round and round about because we posted so much stuff in that way. Susan Deutsch: I worked in the school district with kids with disabilities and I'm aware that there are PDFs that can be read so that when a student gets something scanned to them, it can be read. Leslie Morrison: On a screen reader? Susan Deutsch: Well, it's an app that reads PDFs. Now, I don't know if that's a screen reader but there are apps that will read the PDF. Jennifer Roloff: In the last technology job that I just left, we sold software that could work with unstructured data is what they call it, right, but you have to pay money for that. So the private industries will have that, but yes, does the state? Does the city? Do all small, non-profits have that technology? I think technology is getting more accessible so we'll probably get there but I see your point right now that it doesn't exist, universally. Leslie Morrison: Right. Jenn Barrett: Great. Thank you for bringing up that topic. Okay, unless anyone has any other issues or items we're going to move on to 5C. Mr. Brillinger? Arnold Brillinger: I was just thinking we were talking about getting the word out. I think that there are so many different things that we can let people know. For example, when it's the street fair out 03/13/19 Page 19 of 28 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-03-13.pdf |