FW: Accessible PDF forms versus forms in Word doc

Seconding Peter's comments about remediating the source document, rather than remediating the exported PDF. Faster, cheaper, and more accurate.

And seconding (thirding?) Karen's comments. 

A well-made PDF form can be fully accessible. The problem is that most people don't know how to make a PDF form accessible, so PDF forms get a bad rap. It definitely is an art! And requires training.

Pros and Cons to both methods, Word-to-PDF or InDesign-to-PDF; decide what's most critical for your form and audiences. Forms built in InDesign can contain the form fields, and plug-ins can add scripts, too. So you can design and edit your InDesign form in one application, and export a nearly complete, accessible PDF...with all the reading orders intact. 

And yes, I have a class and book on accessible PDF forms from Adobe InDesign.

–Bevi Chagnon

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Received on Thursday, 24 September 2020 05:26:32 UTC