Workshop 6:PDF Accessibility Tools

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July 2007

Summer Accessibility Institute

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• Introductions• Corporate Overview• CommonLook™ Products and Services• Accessibility Tools

o PDF Wizard for MS Word and Powerpointo CommonLook Section 508 for Adobe Acrobato Enterprise Compliance Management

Agenda

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NetCentric Technologies

• Subject Matter Experts in– Accessibility – PDF/UA– PDF – HTML

• Document compliance – CommonLook Products– Professional Services

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CommonLook

CommonLook PDF Products: PDF Accessibility Wizards for Word and PowerPoint CommonLook Section 508 for Adobe Acrobat Enterprise Compliance Management

CommonLook Services: Web accessibility consulting Training Section 508 on line PDF testing Services for HTML/PDF document accessibility Accessible forms design

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PDF Tools Objective:

• Meet accessibility objectives

• Meet S508 and a selection of other key usability requirements

• Accessibility work should be done by authors

• Accessibility work requires little time and no prior knowledge

• Provide process to address challenging documents

Benefits:

• Make PDF documents accessible

• Ensures accessible material. Strikes the right balance between level of accessibility and ease of use

• Better accessibility quality. Reduced cost. Better workflow integration

• Wider adoption and acceptance. Accessibility is not a ‘burden’

• Skilled resources and specialized tools ensure better quality & efficiency

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PDF Accessibility - Overview

Technology

- CommonLook Word/PowerPoint PDF Accessibility Wizard

- CommonLook Section 508 for Adobe® Acrobat®

- CommonLook PDF Enterprise Management Framework

Training

- PDF Accessibility- Advanced PDF Accessibility

-MS Office Best Practices for PDF Accessibility

Services

- PDF Remediation- Outsourced Compliance Tracking

- Rollout Planning-Audit Services

-Accessibility Templates and Best Practices Guidelines

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Tools: Word/PowerPoint Wizards

• Add-in for Word and PowerPoint• For use by content authors• Quick and Intuitive – No need for prior

knowledge of accessibility or training• Simple Create Accessible PDF Command• Removes need for Acrobat for majority of

uses• Combines creation of accessibility

information and verification• Utilizes market-leading, proven

CommonLook technology• Result: Tagged accessible PDF

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Tools: CommonLook S508 for Acrobat

• Unique, market-leading product for PDF accessibility.

• Facilitates document repair through a visual, drag and drop interface.

• Automatically corrects many of the most common accessibility problems.

• Can be used to verify and remediate:– challenging documents – legacy documents– as a QA tool

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Tools: Enterprise Compliance Management

• Enterprise level– Manages the compliance of entire PDF

holding

• Optional tracking and remediation capability

• Variety of reports ranging from very high-level to very detailed

• Set and monitor performance against targets

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Enterprise Compliance Management

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Enterprise Compliance Management

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Demonstration of: 1. CommonLook MS Word PDF Accessibility

Wizard Prototype2. CommonLook Section 508 for Acrobat

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Thank you

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