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Re: Pagemaker or QuarkXPress and Accessible PDF Document

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Sep 4, 2009 12:10PM

Karlen Communications < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>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
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Randall Pope
>Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:14 AM
>To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
>Subject: [WebAIM] Pagemaker or QuarkXPress and Accessible PDF Document
>
>
>
>With Warm Regards,
>Randall "Randy" Pope
>American Association of the Deaf-Blind
>Website: http://www.aadb.org
>
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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
>
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