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From: Duff Johnson
Date: Oct 24, 2011 12:33PM

Lucy,

Can you say a little more about precisely who are the users who are trying to make these documents more accessible? Are they... the authors? The people running scanners? The web-content administrators? Who?

Also, are we talking about one specific body of existing documents that just has to be fixed, or are we talking in more general terms about how to improve the process of creating new documents, or... what?

Duff.

On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Lucy Greco wrote:

> Yes I actually gave these instructions but once again I was told to complicated
>
> Lucy Greco
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Mark Guisinger
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 11:21 AM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] automatic document testing
>
> Lucy,
> Did you try the built in accessibility checking tools in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 and
> above? I find them easy to use and it does provide some suggestions on how to
> correct the issues. You will find them under the Advanced menu.
>
> MarkG
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: "WebAIM Discussion List ( <EMAIL REMOVED> )"
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Mon, October 24, 2011 2:04:12 PM
> Subject: [WebAIM] automatic document testing
>
> Hello:
> I have been given the task of helping users provide accessible documents. The
> more I tell my director that the task of providing accessible documents is not
> an easy three step process the more he wants a simple way to check the
> accessibility of documents and quick fix. Does anyone have a tool that will
> check PDF files and indicate if the document is accessible. And if it is not
> accessible what to fix in it. I tried the web aim instructions on how to create
> accessible files but was told they were too complicated. Someone please help me
> find a way to give a simple answer to a hard problem thanks Lucy