[nfbcs] Off-Topic - need help for Universities

[Nancy Coffman]

Nuance has a program that they say converts PDF documents into an accessible 
format from PDF.  It is called PDF converter.  Adobe also has a lot of 
information on their website and through their support network on how to tag 
documents and make sure they are accessible.  Part of the equation is 
whether the end user has the latest version of Adobe so that they can read 
newer PDF documents.  I think it does require at least Acrobat Pro to make 
accessible PDF documents.

Nancy Coffman

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From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder at earthlink.net>
To: "NFB RD Committee" <nfb-rdcomm at nfbcal.org>; "nfbcs" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>; 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:59 AM
Subject: [nfbcs] Off-Topic - need help for Universities


> I'm getting several requests which deal with how to make documents in PDF 
> accessible. Some of the requests are coming from universities where they 
> are trying to convert books which are in PDF. Some are coming from units 
> of government which apparently are placing their documents in PDF so they 
> retain their format no matter on what machine they are read. In the case 
> of these latter documents which are not scanned but which are distributed 
> in PDF, is there some guide to show those putting out the documents how to 
> ensure they will be accessible?
>
> Gary
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