Using Acrobat Pro to meet the 508 Refresh

In a burst of enthusiasm at the news that the long awaited and badly needed 508 Refresh will substantially raise the bar for high quality PDF accessibility - aligning 508 with the rigorous and comprehensive standards set by ISO 14289, PDF Universal Accessibility (PDF/UA) - I gathered together all the tips and tricks that I know of for using Acrobat Pro to achieve PDF/UA and posted them at TaggedPDF.com.  Any  feedback you provide will be greatly appreciated. 

Or perhaps the real question is...
"What's different between your PDFs and Acrobats?"
I would look at the two PDFs in question and see what is different. Are your PDFs using ASCII filters, but Acrobat uses Flate? Are you wasting whitespace in your output? Are you doing full font embeds vs. subset embeds? etc....
Leonard

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