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1. #SHARING FINAL DRAFT SOFTWARE PDF#
2. #SHARING FINAL DRAFT SOFTWARE MANUAL#
3. #SHARING FINAL DRAFT SOFTWARE SOFTWARE#

#SHARING FINAL DRAFT SOFTWARE SOFTWARE#

These auto-generated tags won’t be complete or fully accurate, but they’re a lot better than no tags at all for students who might be using screen reader software to access the screenplay.ĮXT.Add auto-tags (click on tag icon on the left side menu > right click on No Tags available > Add Tags to Document.Add and/or correct the following metadata under File > Properties.

#SHARING FINAL DRAFT SOFTWARE PDF#

In the meantime, here are our current recommendations to increase screenplay PDF accessibility (using Adobe Acrobat to edit the PDF): The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been made aware of this and will hopefully be including more specific accessibility standards for screenplays. To complicate things further, while there are well-documented standards for making PDFs accessible, some common screenplay formatting standards aren’t covered by these standards. So we’re sticking with exporting from Final Draft as a PDF. DIVING INTO SCREENPLAYS – OUR RECOMMENDATIONS This comes in handy when a director tells their actor to flip to page 15 and start from the top. There’s less fluidity and movement with PDFs. With PDFs, what’s on page 15 for me will always be on page 15 for you too.

#SHARING FINAL DRAFT SOFTWARE MANUAL#

Using a word processor makes that formatting an unnecessarily manual process. Screenwriting software like Final Draft helps with industry standard formatting.

Right around now, you may be asking, “Well why don’t we export as a Word Document instead or just skip screenwriting programs entirely and write directly in Word/Google Docs?” We asked ourselves the same thing and here’s our answer: Unfortunately, exported PDFs from Final Draft do not have complete metadata and tags. Sighted readers can learn these things usually by looking at a PDF but blind or visually impaired readers usually rely on non-visual representation, including metadata and tags.Īnd for screenplays in particular, it’s necessary that readers be able to quickly access that info and skim to relevant parts of the script, especially when on set. Having searchable text is a good start but a fully accessible PDF will have other features like metadata and tags that tell readers more info about the author, the language, and the role of each section of text. There’s just one snag: PDFs aren’t the most digitally accessible file format. Once the screenplay is done, it’s exported as a PDF and sent off into the world. You tell it what type of info a line will contain and it’ll indent, capitalize, italicize, push it onto the next page… it’ll do what needs to be done. Huzzah! Screenwriting software does all the formatting work for you. It’s a lot to memorize, especially when you’re just starting out as a screenwriter.ĮNTER: screenwriting software.

We’re talking about a certain level of indentation for character names, dialogue, scene descriptions, and so much more. SETTING THE SCENE – SCREENPLAYSĪs any screenwriter knows, screenplays have specific, industry standard formatting. During our brief time looking into screenwriting software, we were not able to find a 100% accessible screenwriting software–we picked Final Draft to focus on since it’s commonly used.īefore we get any further, we want to say that screenplays made with Final Draft do have searchable (selectable) text, when exported as a PDF. We don’t normally provide technical support for Final Draft but we were excited to dig in and perform some accessibility tests since we’ve been working hard on developing digital accessibility resources at Emerson. FADE IN: ITG recently got our hands on a copy of Final Draft 12.