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Re: Pagemaker or QuarkXPress and Accessible PDF Document

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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Sep 4, 2009 10:20AM

Generally Adobe InDesign does a fair job of creating the Tags for a document
exported to tagged PDF but you have to do some work as you design the
document to get the most out of InDesign's capabilities.

Check your version of PageMaker to see if you can use the export settings to
create tagged PDF. Of course the Tags will depend on how the document was
created and Adobe has some resources on their web site for creating
accessible documents/InDesign based.

I've heard that the most recent version of Quark will let you export to
tagged PDF but can't find any documentation on their web site about this so
cannot confirm this. If anyone knows where it is, let me know!

If you already have the PDF you can use Adobe Acrobat to add the Tags.

Cheers, Karen

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Hi all,

Is there any way to convert QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents into
accessible PDF file? I just gotten a rude waken the other day that the PDF
documents created by QuarkXPress were not accessible for the screen readers.


If these programs cannot do the conversion, can anyone recommend a
publishing software that will convert the document into accessible PDF?

Thank for your help.

Randy Pope
AADB