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From inaccessible to accessible – the document remediation experience

July 22, 2015 By Allayne Woodford

In my role as Accessibility Services Manager at Media Access Australia I am often tasked with turning inaccessible into accessible. The formats I work with are varied, from the Microsoft Office suite of programs to Adobe’s InDesign and Acrobat Professional. On top of this, every document is unique in its layout and presentation. What’s invariable though are the types of problems I encounter along the way. As an insight into document remediation, I’ve summed up my experiences in five points.

Magnifying glass hovering over documents moving between folders
Magnifying glass hovering over documents moving between folders

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Filed Under: Accessible PDFs, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign, PDF standards Tagged With: accessible content, accessible PDFs, acrobat, adobe, challenges, Microsoft Office, reader, user experience, Word documents

Adobe Accessibility: Acrobat, Reader, Creative Suite

June 16, 2015 By Media Access Australia

Adobe, makers of the popular PDF applications Acrobat and Reader and the Creative Suite design applications, spoke to Media Access Australia about accessibility and recent improvements in its software.

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Filed Under: Accessible PDFs, Adobe Acrobat Tagged With: accessible PDFs, acrobat, adobe, reader

Embedding Illustrator files in PDFs

June 16, 2015 By Allayne Woodford

The accessibility of PDF (Portable Document Format) files is something of a bone of contention within the accessibility community, and an ongoing source of frustration among those working to improve document accessibility in their own organisation or industry.

The document format can be complicated to make accessible, and has many known issues—such as being difficult to correctly tag page elements, being incompatible with screen reading software, and jumbling up the read order from the source file.

But, imagine the accessibility challenge that occurs when you embed an inaccessible Illustrator file inside a PDF then try to make the whole document accessible.

Let’s illustrate this with an example.

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Filed Under: Accessible PDFs, Adobe InDesign Tagged With: accessible PDFs, illustrator

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