Accessible PDF files (which devices used by people with visual disabilities can interpret) are the right thing to do, and in some cases, they’re legally required. Yet many people don’t know how to create these files. A new white paper from Adobe shows you the current best practices, while pointing out some limitations. CreativePro.com author and InDesign Magazine editorial director David Blatner contributed to the paper.
From the white paper “Creating Accessible PDF Documents with Adobe InDesign CS4”:
“If you already have a document in PDF for¬mat, you can add accessibility features in Adobe Acrobat Pro. However, it is far easier to add these features from within InDesign before you make the PDF. More importantly, if you have to edit the document and create a new PDF, you won’t have to redo all the work you had done in Acrobat. In this document we’ll take a look at what is required in an accessible PDF document, how to perform those tasks in InDesign, and which follow-up tasks you will want to perform in Acrobat.”
To download the white paper and find related resources, go to the InDesign accessibility web page.
This article was last modified on June 19, 2020
This article was first published on July 7, 2009
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