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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Jan 5, 2015 9:49AM

The whitepaper for InDesign CS6 (http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/indesign/pdfs/creating-accessible-pdf-documentw-with-adobe-indesign-cs6-v3.pdf) is a useful resource.

It is hard to offer specific suggestions to overcome the concerns that the process is too cumbersome and time-consuming. I find that authors of any tool starting to look at supporting accessibility in their work find that it is somewhat disruptive to their tried and true processes, and InDesign authors are no exception. I'd love to hear what aspects of the process your colleague finds most problematic. It may be that there is a better way, or it may be that we can provide new information to the InDesign team to help them improve the product. Feel free to put the person in contact with me.

Thanks,
AWK