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Adobe Acrobat Ninja

By : Urszula Witherell
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Adobe Acrobat Ninja

By: Urszula Witherell

Overview of this book

Adobe Acrobat can help you solve a wide variety of problems that crop up when you work with PDF documents on a daily basis. The most common file type for business and communication, this compact portable document format is widely used to collect as well as present information, as well as being equipped with many lesser-known features that can keep your content secure while making it easy to share. From archive features that will keep your documents available for years to come to features related to accessibility, organizing, annotating, editing, and whatever else you use PDFs for, Acrobat has the answer if you know where to look. Designed for professionals who likely already use Adobe Acrobat Pro, this guide introduces many ideas, features, and online services, sorted and organized for you to easily find the topics relevant to your work and requirements. You can jump to any chapter without sifting through prior pages to explore the tools and functions explained through step-by-step instructions and examples. The information in some chapters may build on existing knowledge, but you are not expected to have an advanced level of prior experience. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the many capabilities of PDFs and how Acrobat makes it possible to work in a way that you will never miss good old ink and paper.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Accessibility guidelines and list of tags

Accessibility is a global issue, with countries adopting different methods to address it. Here is a brief list of references to laws and guidelines in some regions.

Laws and guidelines by country

A source for international guidelines on the accessibility of information distributed in an electronic format is the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), an organization that operates under the umbrella of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Documents compliant with standards developed by the WAI generally meet the laws of most countries. However, to ensure legal compliance, it is necessary to review the laws of each country or region.

A difference between guidelines and laws is that failing to follow guidelines does not bring legal penalties. On the other hand, failure to comply with laws may result in legal or financial penalties, often significant. The following table lists only some English-speaking regions:

Table 13.3 – A list of references for accessibility guidelines globally (English-speaking countries only)
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