Adobe GoLive

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Adobe GoLive is an authoring tool for websites and web pages. You can use GoLive to export web pages to PDF while retaining formatting and features such as links, form elements, and QuickTime movies. You can use this powerful functionality to quickly e-mail PDF versions of web pages or create documents such as interactive PDF forms.

Preparing an Adobe GoLive Document for Making Accessible PDF

GoLive provides two ways to export PDF files, and each has unique advantages. If you export individual open pages, you can preview various PDF settings with the PDF Creation Inspector. If you export selected files in the site window, you can simultaneously export multiple files-or an entire site-and retain links between files.

Note: Frames, HTML comments, and JavaScript do not export to PDF. Exported anchors, however, become bookmarks in the PDF file.

Tagging

GoLive generates tagged accessible PDF files from web pages that have been designed or edited in GoLive. Structure generation and alt text assignments are automated. The structure for the resulting PDF is inherited from the inherent structure of the HTML code.

Adding ALT Text to Graphics

ALT Text for images in the PDF is carried over from ALT text attributes that have been assigned to images embedded in the HTML code, so it is important for GoLive users to remember to specify ALT text for images. This is a two step process in GoLive

Select the image or Smart Object on your web page.

In the Basic tab of the Image Inspector, type text in the Alt Text text box (See Figure 3 - 5 GoLive Inspector With Basic Tab and Alt Text Dialog Highlighted) .

Figure 3 - 5 GoLive Inspector With Basic Tab and Alt Text Dialog Highlighted

Generating Accessible PDF from Adobe GoLive

With the PDF Preview tab selected from GoLive (See Figure 3 - 6 PDF Preview Tab in Adobe GoLive) select File > Export > HTML as Adobe PDF in order to display the Export Adobe PDF dialog (See Figure 3 - 7 Export Adobe PDF Dialog in Adobe GoLive) .

Figure 3 - 6 PDF Preview Tab in Adobe GoLive

With the Export Adobe PDF dialog open, select the General Category and make sure the Create Tagged PDF checkbox in the Options group is checked. Make any other adjustements and select the export button to generate the PDF file (See Figure 3 - 7 Export Adobe PDF Dialog in Adobe GoLive) .

Figure 3 - 7 Export Adobe PDF Dialog in Adobe GoLive