{"id":2445,"date":"2014-05-29T10:25:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T14:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2014-05-29T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T20:02:07","slug":"pdf-accessibility-lets-start-52914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2445","title":{"rendered":"PDF Accessibility…Let’s Start, 5\/29\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contributed by Lori Markland, Director of Communications, Outreach and Program Development, MDTAP<\/em><\/p>\n

Confession – I love PDFs and I can not lie.<\/p>\n

I like taking a document and saving it as a PDF. I like the way it looks on the screen. And given the choice between reading a Word doc or a PDF, I’ll always choose PDF. But that doesn’t make this love affair right. Especially because I know that the vast majority of PDFs are, at best,\u00a0complicated bundles of inaccessible text and overlooked tags, and at worst, they’re downright unreadable for someone using a screen reader. So, I have resolved to make sure that every document I create be converted into an accessible PDF. Easier said than done.<\/p>\n

In my quest to learn more and do this better, I found a few links that can be super helpful in understanding why it’s good practice to make these accessible, http:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/articles\/pdfaccessibility\/<\/a>. And good starter tips for making an accessible PDF, http:\/\/webaim.org\/techniques\/acrobat\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let’s start, one accessible PDF at a time.<\/p>\n

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