Adobe. Access to All

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Adobe Confidential 1

Adobe®

Access to All

Steve Forrest & Lori DeFurioAdobe Systems IncorporatedNovember 2002

Lori DeFurio

Sample files are attached at PaperClip above. Questions: - How do I create Tagged PDF from InDesign? InDesign uses the Paragraph Styles to create Tagged PDF. - See Page 17 for a flow chart on decisions for creating Accessible PDF.

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Agenda

Adobe View of Accessibility

Accessibility Drivers

Accessibility Standards

Roles and Responsibilities

Characteristics of Accessible Electronic Documents

Resources and Information

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What Does Accessibility Mean?

When creating and sharing electronic documents, it means:

Providing software, and

Providing electronic content

…that can be used effectively by people with disabilities

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Accessiblity Drivers

Government Mandate Section 508

Web delivered government services are considered public accommodations (ADA)

Manufacturer/Industry Standards W3C Web Accessiblity Initiative (WAI)

Assistive Technology Improvements

Adobe PDF 1.4, Macromedia Flash, Microsoft MSAA

Stakeholder AdvocacyACB, AFB, NFB, NCD, etc…

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Government Mandate

I Want YOU

To Provide Accessible Content

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Driving Accessible Industry Standards

Member W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

Editor W3C SVG Working GroupAn emerging standard for accessible Web graphics

Vector-based graphics instead of bitmaps

XML based pending W3C approval

Developer of applications that create and display SVG

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Accessible Web Sites ANDAccessible Electronic Documents

W3C Technologies (HTML, CSS, XML, XTML):Web Accessibility Initiative

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (1999)

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (Draft)

PDF 1.4PDF 1.4 Reference Guide

http://access.adobe.com

Acrobat and Acrobat Reader 5.0

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Assessing Your Content

Content Assessed Within the Context of TimePreviously Created (Legacy)

What Goes

What Stays

Repair or Regenerate ?Can Accessibility be Added?

Do It Again

From this MomentAwareness, Knowledge

Tools

Processes

Techniques

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Making Legacy Content Accessible

Making Web Sites Accessible

Making PDF Files Accessible

Creating Accessible HTML Content (if not available) from PDF files or from originals (if available

When done: implement Accessibility awareness training for ALL content creators, specially for knowledge workers

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Going Forward

The Proper Level of AwarenessMake your user community aware of the importance of accessiblity and while not now, how they might themselves benefit later.

The Proper InfrastructureAvailability of accessible applications that produce accessible content.

The Proper Skill SetsThe tools are only as good as the users’ ability to use them. Train your content creators.

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Creating an Accessible Electronic Document is a Team Effort

Applications must: Retain and encode both content and structure

Deliver the information effectively to assistive technology

Provide useful tools to help optimize documents

To the extent possible, be useable by those with disabilities

Authors must: Create documents with accessibility in mind

Define structure such as headers, columns, and so on

Add navigation and explanatory information

And wouldn’t it be better if…Publishing tools would help convert legacy files too?

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The Accessible Electronic Document

Contains both content and structure

TitleLogo

Subtitle

Column 1Scanned

imageTableData

Column 2

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Contains navigational aids

Bookmarks with Hyperlinks

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Contains real text, not just scanned text

Adobe PDF documents can contain:Image onlyImage plus hidden textFormatted text and graphics

Scanned Text Computer Text

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Contains extra information for the blind or visually disabled

Alternate text descriptions for images

Meaningful form field descriptions

A defined document language

“Image of surface prep equipment”

“Documentlanguage is

English”

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Free Courseware

http://partners.adobe.com/access/acroaccess.html

Authoring for accessibility and reflow in Microsoft Word and Acrobat

Authoring for accessibility and reflow in Adobe FrameMaker and Acrobat

Authoring for accessibility and reflow in Adobe InDesign and Acrobat

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