Applications That Directly Generate Tagged PDF

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With any application that can directly generate tagged PDF, the user must deal with two issues:

Proper preparation of the original source file for proper tagging of elements (text, alternate text descriptions for non-text elements, etc.)

How to specify the generation of tagged PDF (as opposed to untagged PDF) from the source application..

This typically involves knowing where to locate the dialogs where you can establish preferences for how the resulting PDF should behave. Applications that can directly generate tagged PDF typically have such a dialog.or the proper settings can be established by specifying a series of preferences.

The applications that are capable of generating tagged PDF files that this tutorial discusses are as follows:

Adobe FrameMaker (See Adobe FrameMaker)

Adobe GoLive (See Adobe GoLive)

Adobe InDesign (See Adobe InDesign)

Adobe LiveCycle Designer (See Adobe LiveCycle Designer)

Microsoft Office (See Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word))

OpenOffice Writer (See OpenOffice.org (OpenOffice Writer))

WebCapture in Adobe Acrobat 7.0 (See WebCapture in Adobe Acrobat 7.0)

Note that the techniques for generating accessible PDF from these applications can also be useful for generating accessible HTML. The difference of course is that the user would specify the content to be exported or saved as HTML rather than PDF.