Contents Contents List of Figures List of Tables Introduction How the Tutorial is Organized Conventions Used in This Tutorial Hypertext Links Keystrokes Modifier Keys Mouse Movement Menu Commands What Else is On the CD What You Should Know Before Beginning The Adobe Acrobat User Interface The Menu Bar (A) The Toolbars (B) What Do All Those Little Icons Mean? The Status Bar (C) The Navigation Pane (D) The Document Pane (E) The How To Window (F) Some Items You Will Use a Lot Add Tags to Document Forms Tool Navigation Tabs, Task Buttons, Toolbars, and Menus Optical Character Recognition Preferences Touch Up Read Order (TURO) Panel Text Figure Form Field Figure Caption Heading1, Heading2, Heading3 Table Cell Formula Background Show Page Content Order Show Table Cells Show Tables and Figures Clear Page Structure Show Order Tab Edit Alternate Text Edit Form Field Text Adobe Acrobat Keyboard Shortcuts Module 1 Working With an Existing PDF File 23 Characteristics of PDF Files and the Impact on Accessibility The Step by Step Approach Step 1: Open a PDF File in Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional Opening PDFs from the Desktop / File Folder Opening PDFs from Within Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader Step 2: Analyze the PDF File Determining the PDF File's Origins Step 3: Determine if the PDF is a Scanned Image If the PDF is a Scanned Image If the PDF Is Not a Scanned Image Step 4: Determine If the PDF File is Meant to Be an Interactive Form If the PDF File is Meant to be an Interactive Form If the PDF File is Not Meant to be an Interactive Form Step 5: Determine If the PDF File is a Legacy PDF File Step 6: Determine if the PDF File is a Tagged PDF File If the PDF File is Not Tagged If the PDF File is Tagged Step 7: Determine if the PDF File is Properly Tagged Step 8: Make Sure You Did Not Miss Anything Practice Exercises for PDF Accessibility Scanned PDF Exercise If the PDF is a Scanned Image If the PDF File Has Not Been Tagged PDF Form Exercise If the PDF is a Scanned Image If the PDF is Not a Scan If the PDF File Has Not Been Tagged Legacy PDF Exercise If the PDF is a Scanned Image If the PDF is Not a Scan If the PDF File Has Not Been Tagged For Those Who Like a Challenge Module 2 Working With Popular Applications to Create Accessible PDF Files 91 Introduction: Generating Tagged and Untagged PDF from Popular Applications Applications That Do Not Directly Generate Tagged PDF Applications That Directly Generate Tagged PDF Adobe FrameMaker Preparing an Adobe FrameMaker Document for Making Accessible PDF Tagging Adding Alt Text to Graphics Generating Accessible PDF from Adobe FrameMaker Adobe GoLive Preparing an Adobe GoLive Document for Making Accessible PDF Tagging Adding ALT Text to Graphics Generating Accessible PDF from Adobe GoLive Adobe InDesign Preparing an Adobe InDesign Document for Making Accessible PDF Tagging Adding ALT Text to Graphics in InDesign To apply Alt or ActualText attributes to the image Generating Accessible PDF from Adobe InDesign Adobe LiveCycle Designer Preparing an Adobe LiveCycle Document for Making Accessible PDF Tagging To view the tabbing order for the fields and objects on a form: To change the tabbing order: To change the tabbing order using keyboard shortcuts: Adding Alt Text to LiveCycle Designer Objects To specify a tooltip for an object: Generating Accessible PDF from Adobe LiveCycle Designer Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word) Preparing a Microsoft Word Document for Making Accessible PDF Tagging Settings Tab Security Tab Word Tab Bookmarks Tab Adding Alt Text to Microsoft Word Graphics Generating Accessible PDF from Microsoft Word OpenOffice.org (OpenOffice Writer) Preparing an OpenOffice Writer Document for Making Accessible PDF Tagging Adding Alternative Text to OpenOffice Writer Graphics Generating Accessible PDF from OpenOffice Writer WebCapture in Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Configuring Adobe Acrobat 7.0 for Accessible PDF Web Captures To open the Web Page Conversion Settings dialog box: From Within Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Do One of the Following: Converting the Web Page from Internet Explorer Index