Accessibility in Adobe Tools at UC

Adobe tools are used across UC to create, edit, and share visual and document‑based content: reports, forms, brochures, graphics, and more. Some Adobe products have a direct impact on accessible PDFs and digital documents, while others are used primarily for design and media production.

This section focuses on Adobe tools that most directly affect digital accessibility at UC—especially those used to create PDFs and longer documents. It is not an exhaustive list of everything Adobe offers. If you use additional Adobe apps, you should consult Adobe’s own accessibility guidance for those tools.

Adobe maintains detailed accessibility documentation for its products, including how‑to guides, feature overviews, and best practices. Because Adobe tools change over time, their documentation is the most current source for step‑by‑step instructions.

When you work in any Adobe product, use Adobe’s own accessibility pages as your primary how‑to reference, and then layer on UC’s guidance to understand how those features fit our environment, expectations, and common use cases.

These pages provide UC‑focused tips, checklists, and links to Adobe’s documentation for tools that most often intersect with accessibility work at UC.

• Adobe Acrobat – Creating, reviewing, and remediating accessible PDFs.
• Adobe InDesign – Designing documents that export to accessible PDF (reports, brochures, forms, and templates).

If you rely on other Adobe tools (such as Photoshop, Illustrator, or Premiere), we encourage you to look up Adobe’s accessibility documentation for those products and consider how the Core Concepts—alt text, color contrast, captions & transcripts, and technical structure—apply to the content you create.

If you are working in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as part of UC’s central web content management system, accessibility guidance for AEM templates and components is available on the Marketing & Communications site.

Using UC’s centrally supported AEM templates and components helps you build accessible web content more easily, since many technical and design decisions are handled at the system level.

If you are not sure which Adobe tool to use or how accessibility fits into your current workflow, you can contact the Accessibility Network for support, and DTS or Marketing & Communications for questions about UC‑licensed Adobe products and web platforms.