Reference Card for Accessible PDF Creation from Word

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 00:00

Adobe provides a reference card for Accessible PDF creation from Word.  This reference cards covers the most common issues in regards to accessibility when creating PDF's.  These include:

  • Provide equivalent for images in Word
  • Use Word's styles to define structural headings
  • Identify table headings for simple tables
  • Use Word's column feature instead of text boxes
  • Enable generation of tagged PDF's. 

The Accessible PDF creation reference card is available at http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2008/03/reference_card_for_accessible.html