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Accessibility Essentials 4
Making the most of PDFs
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TechDis is an advisory service of
,the Joint Information Systems Committee.
,the Joint Information Systems Committee.
Section overviews
The TechDis Accessibility Essentials Guide on making the most of PDF format has been divided into the following three sections:
The Benefits and Barriers of PDFs
This section contains information on the way in which PDFs are used in education, the benefits and barriers they present and the approach TechDis would recommend to addressing those barriers.
Open The Benefits and Barriers of PDFs section.
Producing Accessible PDFs
The section looks at the creation of accessible PDF documents and is divided into two sub-sections: creating a new PDF document and building accessibility into existing PDFs.Open Producing Accessible PDFs section.
User Personalisation of Adobe® Reader
This section covers techniques that the reader can use to amend the look and feel of a PDF document so that it is best suited to them. Please note that many of these functions are only available in Adobe
® Reader; users will not necessarily be able to access the same functions when reading a PDF in a web browser or other PDF reader software.
Open User Personalisation of Adobe® Reader section.