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From: Monir ElRayes
Date: Jan 29, 2010 3:03PM

About $1000. Keep in mind that this is used by the select few who are lucky
enough to be in the business of remediating PDF documents for accessibility.


There is another tool, called PDF Accessibility Wizard (PAW) (~$100) that
takes accessibility to the content author where it really belongs. PAW runs
as an add-in to MS Word and takes the user through Section 508 checkpoints
prior to generating a PDF. It then generates an accessible PDF directly from
the Word environment (you don't need Acrobat for this). Using PAW, an
average user of MS Word - who does not have prior knowledge of
accessibility- can generate a fully accessible PDF from an average Word
document (5 pages with 2 tables and 2 images) in less than 5 minutes.

Cheers,
Monir