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About This Course
A well-designed electronic form is accessible, easy for users to complete, and efficiently gathers information. Electronic forms have fillable fields, hyperlinks, bookmarks, headings, and more
Why use InDesign?
Adobe LiveCycle was discontinued in 2014, and InDesign is the replacement form designer tool.
MS Word forms require you to also know PDF remediation skills. Word is not able to associate form fields with the text that goes with them, so you must remediate the tags tree.
InDesign is able to export form fields at the proper location in the tags tree so remediation is not needed.
Prerequisites
InDesign Accessibility Training
This course requires mastery of how to create accessible InDesign documents.
InDesign creates the form’s appearance and most of its functionality.
Make sure to complete the following courses first:
Adobe Acrobat Training
Acrobat is used for testing and extending form functionality.
- Acrobat Pro Essential Training
- Acrobat DC: Creating Forms
- Creating Accessible PDFs
- Advanced Accessible PDFs
Adobe Sign Training (Optional)
Adobe Sign is a document routing tool and does not create accessible forms.
Adobe Sign is not part of Creative Cloud and requires an additional license.
Accessible forms should be designed with InDesign and Acrobat before they are added to Adobe Sign.
Additionally, not all field types work in this tool – some only work in Acrobat. (See the FAQ.)