Accessible Documents Benefit All Users; Not Just for “Screen Readers”

It is a common myth that making your documents accessible and compliant with Section 508 is only for the benefit of users with disabilities. In fact, compliant documents benefit all users.  Consider these facts:

• More and more content on websites comes in PDF form.
• Structured, tagged PDFs are more accessible to search engines. Google, etc., is “blind”, in a sense; it sees an untagged document as a blank document. On the other hand, a tagged document is optimized for searching. This makes it easy for search engines and USERS to find content in your documents.
• More and more users access content from tablets and mobile devices.
• Structured, tagged PDFs are accessible on mobile devices using “page reflow”, available for mobile applications, so your content is readable on smart-phones, e-book readers, tablets, etc.,  virtually any Internet-connected reading device.

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