WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: PDF Accessibility

for

From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jul 25, 2011 12:09PM

Nancy,
OK, sounds like a reasonable effort, but the information isn't all correct. LiveCycle Designer does create tagged PDF. It is possible to create an untagged PDF also - there is a checkbox to disable tagging so this may have been the issue.

The other issue is possibly one of testing - a Dynamic PDF doesn't create the tags unless they are needed by an active assistive technology. If you have a Dynamic PDF and open it in Acrobat you may not see tags if Reader doesn't detect an accessibility client. If you open a screen reader or an accessibility inspection tool like aDesigner or Inspect32 and THEN open the Dynamic PDF you will see tags in the tag tree. You still can't edit the tags in Acrobat, but LiveCycle allows you to add semantics and information needed.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

<EMAIL REMOVED>
http://twitter.com/awkawk
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility