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As a student with disability, how to navigate an Accessible PDF textbook?

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the preferred format for publishing and distributing digital documents across the globe. This is true for text books as well. Educational institutes, universities, elearning providers, schools and colleges are using PDF as the preferred format for distributing text books to their students. Accessible PDF text books are high on demand […]

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Accessibility Events

Simplifying Accessibility Remediation of Document – Meet 247 Accessible Documents at CSUN 2023

Are you looking to provide accessible documents to your customers including people with disabilities? One of the challenges for most website owners, is making documents accessible! Whether they are brochures, white papers, annual reports, product documentation, user manuals, these all need to be accessible to people with disabilities also! If you provide a document on […]

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Inclusive Hiring

Accessible Corporate Training Programs should be the Norm – Inclusive Hiring II

Just to put things into perspective, In the United States alone, USD 83 billion was the training expenditure, according to the 2019 Training Industry Report. I’m sure your organization also has a training budget. The question that begs to be asked is, then why are corporate trainings so often inaccessible to employees with disability. Do […]

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Inclusive Hiring

5 HR Documents that need to be Accessible to employees with a disability – Inclusive Hiring I

So many organizations worldwide have shown their commitment to disability inclusion. The work by amazing organizations like Disability:IN and The Valuable 500 have surely put inclusion of people with disabilities at the forefront of the conversation.   Employment of people with disabilities is a priority for numerous organizations with C-level executives sponsoring the initiatives. Disability Inclusion has finally received the […]

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Accessible PDF Education Healthcare Publisher Technology

3 Resources for Creating Accessible PDFs

PDF is one of the most widely used format to share information on the web. Corporates, Government organizations, educational institutes share information in the form of annual reports, books, brochures, publications or even user manuals on the web as PDF files. The question that often gets asked is that are PDFs accessible to people with […]

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Accessible PDF

Why Digital Agencies should make their Annual Reports Accessible?

In our fast-paced, digital world, it’s easy to overlook the importance of making sure that everyone can access and understand the content that we create. But it’s vital that we do. For digital agencies, this is especially important when it comes to creating annual reports. There are several compelling reasons why digital agencies need to […]

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Accessible PDF

Top 5 Common PDF Accessibility Errors

PDF is one of the most widely used format to present information on the web. PDFs are used to publish brochures, product user manuals, student text books, bank statements, annual reports, application forms, company policies, utility bills etc.Being such a widely used file format for publishing information, one might think PDFs are capable of making […]

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Accessible Word Image Description

Adding Alternative Text Description to Images in a Word Document

Word is a user-friendly word processing application that is used on a daily basis to create manuals, brochures, flyers, reports, notes, white papers, case studies. One of the essential step to make your word document accessible to all is by providing alternate text description to the images in your word document. Screen readers cannot analyze and […]