Since software is constantly updating and evolving, we have to keep up with changes to make the most accessible documents as possible. With that in mind, issues can sometimes arise with the new versions of our most commonly used software, such as JAWS. What works...
This post is the start of a new series concerning Section 508 compliance remediation. Our expert 508 compliance team has encountered several workflow errors while using Acrobat for 508 remediation. These errors cause some serious headaches for both users and clients. As such, we felt...
At Word Wizards we are all about accessibility. Our 508 compliant transcripts meet federal standards for multimedia on Federal websites that are accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing, as well as to the blind and low vision individuals. ...
When spawning new pages in an Acrobat Acroform, you can choose to rename, or not rename, all the fields on the new page. Obviously, if you don’t rename your field names, you know what the field names on the new pages will be. But what if...
Need to provide closed captions for digital media? Word Wizards has some tips for you that will help make the process go a bit more smoothly. These simple recommendations can help save you time and money during your next captioning project. So before you send...
All e-readers require some form of navigational (or as Amazon refers to them in its Kindle Publishing Guidelines, logical) TOC (Kindle devices also want a separate, inline, TOC as well, but that's another article). And while InDesign is usually pretty good about building one for...
Recently we were faced with an issue that shouldn't have been an issue at all: how to create—by hand—an inline Table of Contents (or TOC) for the Kindle portion of an ebook project. Normally this isn't a big deal; Adobe InDesign is very good at doing...
Last week at the 2012 IDEAS conference, Word Wizards conducted a survey to get a better understanding of what the experts think about the difference between compliance and accessibility. We invite you to participate in this survey and share your opinion about this hot ticket...
[caption id="attachment_972" align="alignnone" width="150"] Interagency Disability Educational Awareness Showcase Logo[/caption] On behalf of Word Wizards, Inc. I would like to thank our friends at USDA for hosting this year's Interagency Disability Educational Awareness Showcase. It was our first year attending as an exhibitor and we took...
Word Wizards is gearing up for next week's Interagency Disability Educational Awareness Showcase (IDEAS). Our organization has developed a broad expertise helping entities achieve section 508 compliance for their documents, videos and interactive forms. After being awarded a GSA contract on the A.I.M.S. schedule earlier...