How do you make the screen readers read signatures on the document to be made 508 accessible?
Reading signatures
2008-05-06 07:33:03
2008-05-12 07:15:08
#2
Is there a way I can copy and paste the signature from one pdf to another pdf?
2008-05-12 15:15:35
#3
Is there a way I can copy and paste the signature from one pdf to another pdf?
For the suggestion I made? Effectively, no.Some signature related information:
[url=http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/index.php?sort=true&searchtype=advanced&search_keyword=signature]Signature How-To[/url]Another approach, centered on the image of the signature.
The handwritten signature is scanned and brought into a PDF file.
Create a button field. Use the Options tab in the Button Properties dialog to
Choose an Icon. Select the signature image on the PDF mentioned above.
You can duplicate a button field to one or all of a PDF file's pages.
With Acrobat Professional manually process these annotations to tag them and to
arrange order.
A good starting reference for accessibility and PDF is Acrobat 8's PDF help file, Chapter 10.
2008-05-13 06:21:26
#4
If the accessiblity report is showing "8 elements that are not contained in the structure tree," how can I fix this problem?
2008-05-13 17:23:15
#5
8 element(s) that are not contained within the structure tree.
The Accessibility Report, from Full Checker, under Detailed Reportwill identify the page(s) where the page content error(s) are.
Record those pages.
Often this error is associated with generated files such as table of contents, list of tables or figures.
The second and subsequent pages will have a line, typically, the first, that
will be untagged content.
Another source of this error is a MS Word Style of FrameMaker or InDesign paragraph tag that was not included as something to be tagged in the authoring application.
Open the TouchUp Reading Order (TURO) tool.
On the TURO tool, click on "Show Order Panel".
Click anywhere in the PDF page to restore the TURO tool.
Go to the affected page(s).
You may find it useful to reduce the PDF file magnification.
On each page affected by the identified page content error you
will see some content that does not have highlighted content.
No highlight implies content is untagged or tagged as an artifact.
Select the TURO tool dialog to make it active.
Draw a rectangle to bound the content that you want tagged.
Let us say it is a line of text. Box the text and then, in the TURO tool,
click on text. The content is now tagged.
Do this on each page that has the error.
You have the Order Panel open so that you may adjust the read order
of the page tags. As well, using "Save As" to an accessible text file will show you
what the PDF's read order is.
Paging through the PDF with TURO tool and Order Panel open lets check each page and correct as you go through
the file.
Accessible = compliant AND usable.
Bad/Wrong read order means the "and" condition is not met.
If its in the budget, get a screen reader to give the PDFs the real test of accessibility.
After all, that is what most actual end-users are going use.
Use a "scrap" file to play with the Tags and Content Panels.
No "undo" for actions but with a scrap file, not a problem.
An interesting activity.
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If the signature is an image of a handwritten signature that has been scanned and brought into PDF --
Tag the signature image as a Figure. Add Alternate Text that identifies the Figure as an image of a signature.
Be well...