Summary Of The Sections In This Guide; Section 1: Accessibility And Adobe Pdf; Section 2: Understanding Tagging And Document Structure; Section 3: The Accessibility Workflow - Adobe 22001438 - Acrobat - PC Manual

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Introduction

Summary of the sections in this guide

Section 1: Accessibility and Adobe PDF

This section defines accessibility, its importance to individuals who read Adobe PDF documents, and the character-
istics of accessible PDF documents.

Section 2: Understanding tagging and document structure

This section describes the basics of tagging and how tagging and document structure affect accessibility.

Section 3: The accessibility workflow

This section identifies the various workflows that you can follow when you are making accessible Adobe PDF
documents. Each workflow includes cross-references to the sections of this guide that can help you achieve accessi-
bility for the type of document from which you're starting.
Section 4: Creating tagged Adobe PDF documents from word-processing and desktop publishing
applications
This section provides an overview of the options that are available for converting files to Adobe PDF from authoring
applications, and offers tips for preparing files for optimal tagging and accessibility before converting files to PDF.
By using the accessibility and document-structuring features (if any) that are available in an authoring application,
you can often minimize, if not eliminate, the amount of follow-up work you must do in Acrobat 7.0 to optimize the
accessibility of PDF documents.

Section 5: Converting scans to accessible Adobe PDF content

This section explains the three ways that you can use Acrobat 7.0 to bring scanned documents into the Adobe PDF
accessibility workflow: by applying optical character recognition (OCR) to existing PDF scans, by scanning paper
documents directly to PDF and applying OCR, and by converting scanned image files to PDF and applying OCR.
You must apply OCR to all PDF documents that originate from scans, so that you can prepare the text and graphics
for editing and accessibility.

Section 6: Creating a single tagged Adobe PDF document from multiple documents

This section describes how to combine multiple documents into a single Adobe PDF document either during or after
conversion to PDF. It also explains the effect of these changes on the tag tree, and how to plan ahead when combining
documents, so as to avoid as much repair of the tag tree as possible.

Section 7: Creating tagged Adobe PDF documents from web pages

This section describes how to convert HTML web pages to tagged Adobe PDF documents either directly from
Internet Explorer or from HTML pages that you have saved to a hard drive.

Section 8: Making Adobe PDF forms accessible

This section describes the characteristics of accessible Adobe PDF forms and the three most frequently used methods
for creating them: by using Adobe LiveCycle Designer, by using the Forms tools in Acrobat 7.0 Professional, and by
using Adobe PDF Forms Access.

Section 9: Adding tags to Adobe PDF documents

This section describes the basic steps for adding tags to untagged Adobe PDF documents in Acrobat. Although using
Acrobat to tag a document is not the optimal method for preparing a PDF document for accessibility, it is a
mandatory step when you do not have access to the source file of an untagged PDF document.