Making Adobe Acrobat PDFs Accessible

A document or application is considered accessible if meets certain technical criteria and can be used by people with disabilities. This includes access by people who are mobility impaired, blind, low vision, deaf, hard of hearing, or who have cognitive impairments. Accessibility features in Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader and in the Portable Document Format (PDF) make it easier for people with disabilities to use PDF documents and forms, with and without the aid of assistive technology software and devices such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, text-to-speech software, speech recognition software, alternative input devices, Braille embossers, and refreshable Braille displays.

Adobe provides the following web pages as resources in ensuring PDF files are accessible.

• The PDF Accessibility Overview
• Acrobat and Acrobat Reader Accessibility Features
• Acrobat Pro DC PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow
• Using the Acrobat Pro DC Accessibility Checker
•  Creating Accessible PDF Forms with Acrobat Pro DC

A link to each of these documents can be accessed through the following web page.  

http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/acrobat/training.html Links to an external site.

Resource:  PDF Accessibility Overview, http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/pdf/pdf-accessibility-overview.html Links to an external site.