Trying to view old Lionel Catalogs on L website (2011-2013), Adobe Flash Player out of date.

@paulp575 posted:

Update: Have downloaded and created PDF for catalogs 2000 thru 2007. Only 2008 to go.

I already have 2009 onward catalogs in PDF form so probably not going to do those - unless someone wants them.

hey can you make pdfs of the ready to run catalogs from 2011, 2012 and 2013 please ? thanks

@paigetrain posted:

hey can you make pdfs of the ready to run catalogs from 2011, 2012 and 2013 please ? thanks

I was going to attach the requested files, but the 2012 is 182MB and there apparently is a problem with the 2013 as the forum keeps uploading repetitively. And the 2011 won't process.

I am contemplating uploading them to my dropbox account and allowing people to download them from there.

Do any of the 2011, 20212, or 2013 catalogs work? If not, I may have to upload them as well to my dropbox account.

Cody,

Here are the links to the original PDFs on Lionel's site:

2011

  Ready-to-Run

    http://catalogs.lionel.com/11rtr/offline/download.pdf

2012

  Ready-to-Run

    http://catalogs.lionel.com/12rtr/offline/download.pdf

2013

  Ready-to-Run

    http://catalogs.lionel.com/13rtr/offline/download.pdf

M.H.M.

@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:

Cody,

Here are the links to the original PDFs on Lionel's site:

2011

  Ready-to-Run

    http://catalogs.lionel.com/11rtr/offline/download.pdf

2012

  Ready-to-Run

    http://catalogs.lionel.com/12rtr/offline/download.pdf

2013

  Ready-to-Run

    http://catalogs.lionel.com/13rtr/offline/download.pdf

M.H.M.

thanks

No luck still, I tried the link above:

Here's the link to the catalog page

It is still 100 percent inaccessible with adaptive technology. It presents 226 graphics which presumably a thumbnails for pages.  None of the images can be clicked and there is no readable text. Again it is 100 percent inaccessible.

OK this is the link to the 2021 Big Book:

http://catalogs.lionel.com/2021/BB/

I have tried reading it with a screen reader and no luck it is essentially just 226 inaccessible graphics. There is evidentally no link to download an accessible version of the catalog either.  Does anyone know a contact at Lionel that can hel?

I was able to download all the catalogs from 2000 Volume 2 thru 2008. I didn't download anything past that as I have them already downloaded.

The problem is when they changed their website (2010?) some things in the 2009 and prior catalogs are not showing graphics. Regardless, the information contained in the catalogs is complete.

I can not upload the files because they are over 100 MB. I previously tried uploading the PDFs (2000 thru 2008) but apparently something within the OGR forum isn't allowing a couple. Maybe there is a problem within the file? I checked those files and everything is displaying correctly .

I used the previously mentioned HTTrack program to download 200 thru 2016 and it took about 90 minutes.

@ChooChoo1972 posted:

OK this is the link to the 2021 Big Book:

http://catalogs.lionel.com/2021/BB/

I have tried reading it with a screen reader and no luck it is essentially just 226 inaccessible graphics. There is evidentally no link to download an accessible version of the catalog either.  Does anyone know a contact at Lionel that can hel?

According to the 3DIssue website, there is supposed to be a panel on the right that allows a reader to turn on the audio.

Apparently Lionel isn't using the most recent version of 3DIssue?

Yikes, why even bother. If Lionel just used HTML 5 instead none of these problems would be an issue. I think whomever is doing their web-site is stuck in 1999 or something.

Doing a deeper dive into this it appears that 3dissue supports HTML 5 directly so it shouldn't be any problem making a fully workable and accessible flip-book.

https://www.3dissue.com/flipbo...ipbook-features.html

One thing to note is that 3dIssue has the ability to disable text selection as a feature. If that feature is enabled it would also block use of a screen reader. I can't say if that is what is going on here but I think it is time for Lionel to take a closer look at this. thanks

This is what 3dissue themselves say about accessibility:

https://www.3dissue.com/help/k...igital-publications/

However you'll note that the article above is dated 2018. The other thing is that 3dissue can build an epub book, not sure if Lionel considered that. Well as mentioned above as a stop gap measure putting the .pdf download link online an turning on the audio book feature should be simple enough.