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A service for creating accessible PDFs

PDFs are increasingly used by large and small organisations to publish information via the web.

Contact us today for,

• Help with your policy and approach to accessoble PDF publishing.
• Training and training guides to help create accessible PDFs in-house.
• A service for making existing PDF documents accessible.

We have 'wrote the book' on the subject.

How to Create Accessible PDFs with Adobe Acrobat 6

An easy to read 22 page practical 'how to', for creating accessible Adobe Acrobat 6 PDF documents,

This ebook covers the following five areas related to creating and using accessible Adobe Acrobat documents,

1. Developing guidelines to determine which documents should be published as PDFs. The process of creating, testing, modifying and re-testing PDF for accessibility is a time consuming task. It is therefore a good idea to decide early on which documents are suitable for conversion to PDF.
2. Preparing source documents before conversion process: Source documents should be well structured, use simple layouts, and have appropriately labelled images.
3. Testing accessibility of PDF documents after they have been converted. Adobe Acrobat has a built-in accessibility checker and a new 'Read Aloud' feature. Jaws and other supported screen readers can be used to test the accessibility of PDF documents.
4. Creating accessible PDF forms. A summary of techniques and tools for creating accessible forms within PDF documents.
5. Anticipating client side accessibility issues, and educating users about new accessibility features:

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