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Right now we're just going to document how to make your PDF accessible using Acrobat.

Accessibility

With your PDF from Word or from LaTeX in hand, you'll need to open up Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. I'm using version 2015.009.20077 on a Mac.

1. Click 'Tools' in the upper left corner.
2. Find 'Accessibility' and open it.
3. In the right sidebar, click 'Autotag Document.'
4. Click "Full Check" and address any issues you might see that are addressable.
5. Save the document.

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}
.
.
.
\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
}

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.