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Re: Which Acrobat versions for creating accessible PDF's

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jan 31, 2011 11:03AM

I don't have a list that is any better than the one on the site (which once had text underlying the dots used to indicate a feature, will forward your comment to the web team).

In general I usually break down the versions in a way similar to what you did:

Standard allows authors to create tagged PDF documents with the PDFMaker tool for MS-Office and from web pages, but does not allow authors edit the tags.

Pro allows both the creation and editing of tags. Authors can repair the accessibility of an inaccessible PDF file.

I'll also add that as with many aspects of PDF files that may need repair, a document that is authored correctly will not require that the reading order be adjusted. For example, an author using Word that creates columns in a document using Word's column feature will find that the reading order is correct in the PDF that is saved from that document. If the author instead uses text boxes to create columns then repair is more likely to be needed.


Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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