As president and CEO of TecAccess, Debra Ruh brings over twenty years of experience creating technology solutions for private firms, government agencies, universities, and non-profit organizations. Inspired by her daughter, Sara, who has Downs Syndrome, Debra has built a successful, award-winning company with more than 60 associates worldwide most of whom are people with disabilities. Debra’s company is an internationally recognized leader in Section 508 compliance solutions, as well as providing electronic and information technology (E&IT) accessibility solutions to clients in government, industry, and education.

 

Articles by Debra Ruh

Making PDFs Accessible: New Directions, New Possibilities (Part two of two parts)

(3/6/06)
In Part 1 of this series, you discovered good practices for development of PDF files that screen reader technology can process. This is a key requirement for accessibility and provides sighted readers with better documents. In this concluding part, the author helps you to finish your PDFs by repairing any tagging or reading order issues in the documents.

Making PDFs Accessible: New Directions, New Possibilities (Part one of two parts)

(2/20/06)
Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) is widely used because of its superior display features, cross-platform compatibility, and the protection it offers to intellectual property. Yet documents in this container may be completely inaccessible to a substantial portion of the potential e-Learning audience, simply because the documents were not properly prepared. Here's what to do to avoid this.