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This page gathers documents that the Documentation Team has found or developed regarding Section 508 compliance. These documents will be posted in the appropriate place after consultation with other members of the Training and Development Team. The contents are:

Creating Accessible Technical Documents at CBIIT

To make our documents compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, we must prepare our it is necessary to prepare the source files and then test our the output files. The tools we currently use to create our CBIIT documentation source files, Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Word, both allow us to prepare preparing for accessibility.

Our Many output files are currently in PDF and ePublisher WebHelp 5.0 formats. The tools we currently use used to create those files, Adobe Acrobat 9 and WebWorks ePublisher Pro 9.2, contain tools of their own that check for how well files conform to the Section 508 accessibility standards. We can run Running those checks to see if we need to make shows any additional tweaks needed to our source files. We should It is recommended to avoid as much post-processing to output files as we canpossible.

Most of our preparations for accessibility should be done in the source files. This document explains The following pages explain how to prepare a FrameMaker document documents for accessibility and links to procedures where you can accomplish the same goals in Word.

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• Confluence - Steps to Make Accessible
• Framemaker Files - Steps to Make Accessible
• MS Word Documents - Steps to Make Accessible
• PDF Files - Steps to Make Accessible

The "child" pages here also apply to accessibility of CBIIT documentation.

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