Accessibility

SIGACCESSS

Our friends and experts at SIGACCESS have the best and most complete guide to making accessible PDF submissions. Please refer to it as it will tell you everything you need to know, what works, what doesn't work and why.

Other things

Do follow the guide listed above, but a few other folk have listed some tips and tricks too.

Platform Notes

Word Notes

If you are using Word you may have to fill in various fields like the paper title, authors, language, and title display. The Full Check report will detail what to click where to make it all happen.

LaTeX Notes

If you are using LaTeX, make sure you used (and started with) the latest version of the template. This fills out various sections to make things happen automatically such as:

\usepackage[pdflang={en-US},pdftex]{hyperref}
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\hypersetup{%
  pdftitle={\plaintitle},
% Use \plainauthor for final version.
  pdfauthor={\plainauthor},
%  pdfauthor={\emptyauthor},
  pdfkeywords={\plainkeywords},
  pdfdisplaydoctitle=true, % For Accessibility
  bookmarksnumbered,
  pdfstartview={FitH},
  colorlinks,
  citecolor=black,
  filecolor=black,
  linkcolor=black,
  urlcolor=linkColor,
  breaklinks=true,
  hypertexnames=false
}