Beyond the Basics of PDF Accessibility - 2018 Update

Date/Time: Thursday, January 18, 2018 from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (Eastern Time)

Location: Webinar

Description: Information during this webinar will guide you to the resources and techniques to remediate more complex elements of a tagged PDF document.  The key to remediating any PDF document for accessibility is to ensure that the correct Tag for the content visible on the page has been used.

For example, a tagged PDF document containing only <P> or Paragraph Tags does not provide any navigational structure for those of us using adaptive technology such as screen readers or Text-to-Speech tools. Heading Tags or <H1>, <H2> and <H3> Tags must be in sequential order. This provides valuable information to those of us using adaptive technology about the structure of a PDF document. Just as in HTML, we don’t make everything a <H2> Tag because we like the look of it, we must provide hierarchical navigational structure in a PDF document. PDF differs from HTML in that you can have more than one <H1> Tag in a document. Lists and tables also contain important structural information that must be conveyed via tags in PDF.

This session will provide an overview of the most commonly used form controls in PDF documents. You’ll learn how to add the ToolTip for a form control and how to decide which form control to use for a specific question. Often document remediators forget to Tag the PDF form once the form controls have been added. This process and the Adobe hierarchy of tasks will be explained.

Target Audience: Anyone working in the field of accessible document design,  PDF remediation professionals and document authors.

Skill Level: Intermediate

Objectives:

• Participants will be able to identify several issues that should be addressed in source formats rather than by editing the PDF document directly.

• Participants will learn the correct structure for lists and tables including available Tags for each.

• Participants will learn how to create an accessible PDF form using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

• Participants will learn about new features in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to assist remediators in optimizing PDF documents for accessibility.

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