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From: Collins Flannery
Date: Mar 26, 2010 1:15PM

Can someone attach the directions for making a PDF accessible? I have all
the Adobe tools, but nothing online was succinct in terms of giving step by
step instructions.

Thank you ~
Collins Flannery
Arrowpoint Corp


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> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] PDF will be legally accessible with the new 508
> PDF content accessibility should not be dependent upon a particular
> screen reader product. If the content is tagged appropriately to meet
> accessibility requirements, and the PDF "reader" renders the information
> for inspection by the assistive technology--and then the assistive
> technology doesn't utilize the information provided, well, time to look
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