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From: Bevi Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Jan 28, 2011 10:30AM

CommonLook is a third-party tool that can be used to add accessibility to an
existing PDF.

It gets mixed reviews from users.

The best way to make an accessible PDF is to create a correctly structured
and tagged source document (such a Word or Adobe InDesign file), then export
it to PDF and add the finishing 508 touches to it.

But many people are given PDFs that they then must make accessible, and
CommonLook has some tools that make this process easier to do, such as
controlling accessibility in tables in a PDF.

I usually recommend that my clients purchase good accessibility training
rather than CommonLook. But being an accessibility trainer, I'm a bit biased
on that topic!

-Bevi Chagnon
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