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Adobe Acrobat - How To Create Accessible Adobe® PDF Files Booklet
Preparing Your Documents for Accessibility
Adobe Acrobat 5.0 software lets you create Adobe PDF files that contain logical document structure. Logical structure refers to the organization of the document, such as the title page, chapters, sections, and subsections. The logical structure can indicate the precise reading order and improve navigation, particularly for longer, more complex documents. Although Acrobat 4.0 provided structure information that allowed for a certain level of accessibility, Acrobat 5.0 lets you create tagged Adobe PDF, which provides increased logical structure and as a result, increased accessibility.
For example, tagged Adobe PDF:
- Ensures that information is in the correct reading order on a page.
- Includes paragraph attributes needed to reflow text correctly.
- Ensures the reliable translation of all text into Unicode, which is a standardized approach to describing text characters, regardless of font. This approach understands ligatures and hyphens, so that all characters and words can be read correctly by a screen reader.
- Enables the document to be exported reliably to Rich Text Format (RTF) for reuse in other documents.
Note: Acrobat 5.0 includes a version of Adobe PDFMaker that creates tagged Adobe PDF directly from Microsoft Office 2000 applications.
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