PDF Accessibility
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- smith_barry
I'm in a quandry...
I am trying to add accessibility to PDF documents for a client whose website is built on the premise that all PDF's that will be available online will contain accessibility for people with disabilities. The problems are...
1. As it stands, none of the PDF's we've produced for them in the past contain accessibility so when Acrobat reads the document out loud and there are tables involved it reads them wrong.
2. I have no idea how to either add accessibility to existing PDF documents OR include accessibility for people with disabilities from newly created documents.
Can anyone offer advice as to where to start?
PLEASE?!
- Gnash2
Here’s an overview from Adobe on adding it to PDFs that have already been created. It’s easier than you may think but it depends a lot on the structure of the document when it was created.
https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/acrob…
I often need to add accessibility to docs I create in Indesgn for my university clients. InDesign has pretty good tools for this that are included when you export the pdf
The level of accessibility varies, but the minimum is usually adding alt text to images, adding export tags to paragraphs so that they are read in the correct order.
I’ve never done a table but I imaging there’s a best-practice solution for this
- Gnash1
lol, oops. 19 yo thread
- Salarrue1
This guy has a lot of pretty cool scripts.
https://gilbertconsulting.com/sc…