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While substantial progress has been made in widely used applications like Microsoft Word or Adobe Indesign, when it comes to creating accessible PDF documents, a number of problems still exist that make it difficult even for motivated users in a real world production situation to invest additional effort to create decently tagged PDF. Improved features and enhanced user interface in these applications could contribute substantially to increase the likelihood that creators of print-oriented PDF files take the extra work on them to also make these PDF files accessible.
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Drümmer, O. (2012). Using Layout Applications for Creation of Accessible PDF: Technical and Mental Obstacles When Creating PDF/UA from Adobe Indesign CS 5.5. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_92
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