RE: Accessible PDF forms versus forms in Word doc

...and I have an accessible PDF book on accessible PDF forms, a self-paced online course on accessible PDF forms and teach it in the Accessible Media Production graduate certificate at Mohawk College. The Accessible Media Production Program is now completely online and is a one year program, condensed courses of 3 weeks each and I teach accessible Word/PowerPoint and accessible PDF/PDF forms.
https://www.mohawkcollege.ca/programs/graduate-studies/accessible-media-production-390

I too am a person who uses a screen reader and bring this perspective as well as including impacts on people with other disabilities to my teaching and training.

Cheers, Karen

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Subject: 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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