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A well-designed form is accessible, easy for users to complete, and efficiently gathers information.
Electronic forms offer features such as fillable fields, live hyperlinks, bookmarks, headings, and more.
Creating successful forms requires skills in:
- technical communication
- user experience design
- accessibility
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Acrobat
Adobe LiveCycle was discontinued in 2014, and InDesign is the replacement tool.
MS Word forms require time-consuming PDF remediation and is not recommended.
OLC Creative Services may not offer training or support with accessibility. Please contact EIR Electronic Accessibility (EIRA).
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.)