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Accessibility and Portable Document Format Files

Adobe's Accessibility Gateway Site\
[**http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/index.html**](http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/index.html)

-   **Creating Accessible PDF Documents with Adobe Acrobat 7.0**
    <http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/pdfs/acro7_pg_ue.pdf>

-   **Creating Accessible Adobe PDF Files: A Guide for Document
    Authors**\
    <http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/pdfs/acro6_pg_ue.pdf>

-   **How do I create accessible PDF?**\
    <http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_booklet.html>

-   **Advanced Techniques for Creating Accessible Adobe PDF files**
    <http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/CreateAccessibleAdvanced.pdf>

-   **Creating Accessible Forms**\
    <http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/pdfs/adobedesigner6_accessibleforms.pdf>

-   **Acrobat Information, Training, and Resources\
    **<http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_info.html>

-   **Reading PDF Documents with Adobe Reader 6.0: A Guide for People
    with Disabilities\
    **<http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/pdfs/acro6_cg_ue.pdf>

-   **Reading accessible PDF documents with Adobe Reader 7.0: A Guide
    for People with Disabilities**\
    <http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/reader/pdfs/reader7_accessibility.pdf>

-   Online conversion tools for Adobe PDF documents\
    [**http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html**](http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html)\
    Theses online tools help visually disabled users who haven't
    downloaded the most current version of Adobe® Reader by converting
    Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into either HTML or ASCII
    text.\
    \
    Adobe's "Accessible Acrobat Reader Download"\
    [**http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html\
    **](http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html)

How to Create Accessible Acrobat PDF files (WEBAIM)

<http://www.webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/>

For more information about the Department of Education's Assistive
Technology Program, please visit:
<http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/assistivetech.html>

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*Last Updated on April 6, 2006.*