User Accessibility: Website Design Mistakes

A significant portion of people around the world use assistive technology to aid sensory, motor or cognitive disabilities, but improperly designed website elements render these tools nearly useless. Every aspect from navigation to website text to images to downloadable documents should be available to those who use assistive technology. Section 508 compliance is an involved process with no easy fixes. However, there are some initial, cost-effective steps you can take on your way to becoming compliant.

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Is Your Website Accessible to People with Disabilities?

Just as physical accessibility to stores, offices and public buildings is now commonplace, so should access to information in documents and on websites. However, experts say that’s the last thing on many web developer’s minds. “It is disappointing to me that we have seen lots of mainstream technology get easier and more attractive, but the […]

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9 Facts About Accessible PDF

Before diving into PDF accessibility and Section 508 compliance, we’d like to introduce you to a few basic facts. You’ll hear these again as you learn more about what it takes to make PDFs comply with Section 508, but if you want a FAST overview to get you started, this is it. Almost any PDF […]

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How Section 508 Applies to PDF

Ensuring PDFs are compliant with Section 508 means enabling content for use by devices that suit the needs of a wide variety of disabled users. For those implementing Section 508, it’s important to know what this really means. This document is a PDF-specific guide to the Section 508 regulations, as adapted from § 1194.22 Web-based […]

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Fourth International PDF/A Conference

Please join Appligent Document Solutions CEO Duff Johnson in Rome for the PDF/A Competence Center’s Fourth International PDF/A Conference on September 29–October 1, 2010 in Rome, Italy. The conference offers lectures by international experts, tracks for different areas of focus and interest in PDF/A as well as workshops on the practical use of PDF/A. PDF/A Competence […]

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