The accessible digital documents company, accessible PDF specialists

Our core services

PDF accessibility training: the most in-depth PDF accessibility courses for Adobe InDesign/Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Word and Foxit
PDF accessibility: we will make your PDFs accessible to the highest possible standards, guaranteed
Accessible interactive (A to Z) indexes: for PDF and EPUB—the best kept secret of accessible document navigation?

Testimonials

This course is an absolute must for any creative agency working with clients in both the public and private sectors to create any publications and all types of forms.

Rachael Wheatley, Director, Waters Creative

Ted is a brilliant trainer and an endless source of knowledge and information – I definitely feel I have learnt more on his training sessions than in all others we've attended put together! As an organisation we have completely transformed how we approach accessibility as a result of Ted’s support and I would 100% recommend for any organisation wanting to ensure the documents they produce are accessible to arrange training with the Accessible Digital Documents company.

Lucy Bentley, Leonard Cheshire

This workshop was extremly beneficial and in depth. Ted covered everything from basic functions in InDesign, to creating a gold standard accessible PDF. I really appreciate all the time and effort he has put in to his work. I enjoyed Ted's teaching method, as well as how open and receptive to questions and feedback he was during both training sessions. He was willing to answer our questions, and show us how to do tasks that weren't necessarily in the manual. I think this workshop was truly fantastic. I can't say enough how much I valued this experience.

Kayla Cota, Senior Content Specialist, Thomson Reuters

How not to check a PDF for accessibility

25th July 2023

When checking PDFs for accessibility it is not OK to just run them through an automated accessibility checker and then publish if the checker finds no issues. And yet, so many organisations still fall into the trap of doing precisely this.

Alt text and tooltips in PDFs

26th June 2023

A question that comes up from time to time from people learning how to make PDFs accessible concerns the tooltips that you sometimes see displaying the alt text for images ... sometimes you see such them and sometimes you don't.

Hiding tables behind images in PDFs – please don’t!

30th April 2023

I have recently come across two sources advocating techniques for hiding tables behind graphs or charts for the benefit of screen reader users. Unfortunately, doing so is not a good idea, as it will create serious accessibility problems for literacy software users.