Creating Accessible PDF Documents
The Challenge:
Although using the PDF format is one of the easiest ways to deliver documents on your website it can create significant difficulties for people with disabilities - undermining your efforts to create an inclusive web presence and to achieve full conformance.
How can you continue benefiting from the convenience of PDF while ensuring that the documents you create are accessible? And how do you go about fixing the documents that are currently on your site?
The Solution:
Creating Accessible PDF Documents is a step-by-step guide to creating and managing PDF documents that are universally accessible.
Objectives:
- understand the accessibility issues in PDF documents
- use the accessibility features of Adobe Acrobat 6
- use MS Word to create accessible PDFs
- work with headings and styles
- create accessible tables
- write effective Alt text
- use the Adobe accessibility checker
- troubleshoot accessibility issues
- fix your current documents
Prerequisites:
Familiarity with PDF documents; a basic understanding of MS Word; a basic understanding of the Internet.
Who Should Attend?
IT and information professionals charged with creating or uploading content to a website, including
- Content managers
- Webmasters
- Web developers
- Technical writers and editors