Burdens of the Past: Legacy PDFs and the Challenge of Accessibility
Acrobat 5 also includes facilities for converting older PDF documents—those created with earlier versions of Acrobat, including im-age-only PDFs created from scanned documents—to more accessible forms. This involves using the Make Accessible plug-in included on the Acrobat installation CD. Given the difficulty of what should have been a simple, straightforward procedure—changing a couple of elements from data cells to table headers—and given the lack of information afforded by the Accessibility Checker, attempting to improve the accessibility of older PDF documents on any kind of scale is a daunting task, time-consuming and expensive.
Acrobat’s built-in Accessibility Checker ...
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