Understanding PDF Remediation: Making Digital Documents Accessible to Everyone

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Summary PDF Remediation is the comprehensive process of transforming PDF documents to ensure they can be accessed, navigated, and understood by all users, including people with disabilities who rely on assistive technology. This involves not just adding structural tags, but also addressing document organization, color contrast, text readability, logical flow, and overall usability. With an estimated 2.5 trillion PDFs in circulation worldwide and 98% of businesses using PDF as their primary document-sharing format, the scale of the accessibility challenge is staggering—and urgent. This guide provides essential information for anyone responsible for creating, maintaining, or publishing digital content. If you manage your organization's website or digital document library, you've likely encountered questions like "Why do PDFs need to be accessible?" "What exactly is PDF remediation?" and "How do tags work?" This overview…

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