Accessible Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
Adobe PDF format is increasingly being used for the distribution of electronic content. However, typically, these documents are not encoded correctly to make the content available to users of adaptive technologies such as screen readers and refreshable Braille displays.
Starting with Adobe Acrobat 5.0, Adobe began incorporating PDF accessibility features.
While it is somewhat straight forward for end users to create reasonably accessible PDF documents using Adobe Acrobta, the software does eliminate the requirement for document creators to implement structure, alternative text, complete information and other features that will improve accessibility. In addition, you need to take some additional steps when saving PDF documents if you want to make them more accessible.
Whether you have just a few PDF documents or 1000's we can make them compliant. Even if you no longer have the original source documents we can successfully convert them.
Our Federal and Provincial Government and NGO clients, you will have the strictest of guidelines for creating accessible PDF files. To discover how we can ensure your PDF conversions go off without a hitch, meeting all WCAG 2.0 standards (and at very competitive per page rates), contact us now for a FREE,
no obligation consultation.
For our private sector clients who may be considering creating accessible PDFs, you can follow these basic guidelines to help make your PDFs more accessible, you can check out the tutorial Creating Accessible PDF from Microsoft Word.
Interested in checking to see whether your existing PDFs accessible? Download the PDF Accessiblity Checker (PAC) -- this free software is recommended by the W3C.
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