FrameMaker and Accessibility

[Baruch Brodersen]

Madeleine,

You can add alternate text to anchored frames in FrameMaker. (PDF tags must
be turned on in PDF Settings when converting to PDF for Distiller to parse
the alternate text.)

To add object attributes, select the anchored frame and then choose Graphics
> Object Properties. Click Object Attributes, and in then Text Attributes
add your alternate and actual text.

Baruch Brodersen


-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Madeleine r
Dimond
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:08 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: FrameMaker and Accessibility

We're beginning to make our documents accessible, and we'd like to work in 
FrameMaker as much as possible, rather than retouch them in Acrobat. 

We have some icons that we use before notes, tips, and other asides. I'd 
prefer that the reader skip the graphic because the word "Note" is part of 
the text. However, in Acrobat the Reading Order tool shows the graphic as 
"No alternative text exists," and the person checking the document says 
that's not acceptable, even though it doesn't cause a reading problem.

So is there any way to set the anchored frame properties for the graphic 
so that Acrobat will recognize it as background text and its Reading Order 
tool will ignore it?

Is there any Accessibility group associated with FrameMaker?

Best,
 
 
Madeleine
 
 
 
 
 









 



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