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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Jul 25, 2011 11:33AM

I am the frontend designer and also do 508 testing. This was a
dynamic form with an XML backend
We used LifeCycle Designer and I went to the accessibility tag section
and added them.

However, it did not work, whenever I used a screenreader, it said it
wasn't tagged.. so I went back into Lifecycle and tried to add them
and again it couldn't be tagged.

I was working with an independent contractor -- working on Adobe
products, although I understood he did some research on the matter.

Later I went to Massachusetts Un-conference in May of 2010 hosted at
Adobe's Waltham MA facility and posed it to someone who was an pdf
engineer not from Adobe... he thought that this kind of dynamic pdf
couldn't be made accessible.... I'm sorry I don't have more specifics
for you.

Thanks Nancy

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Nancy,
> I'm confused by your message - you're talking about creating dynamic PDF using Flex?  PDf creation is not part of the Flex SDK product, creating Flash-based user interfaces is.
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> If you use LiveCycle Designer, you can certainly make the forms accessible.  We have best practice information on this at http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/livecycle
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> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
> Adobe Systems
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