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Creating Accessible Adobe PDF Documents

This one day, hands-on course focuses on creating accessible PDF documents. It provides information on how to use Adobe Acrobat’s accessibility features to control reading-order and image tagging. This course can be customised to focus on specific source applications e.g. Microsoft Office, Adobe InDesign or scanned paper documents from which accessible PDF documents can be created.

Introduction

Adobe PDF and Accessibility

Checking PDF Documents for Accessibility

Quick Check
Full Check
Locating Content and Tags
Checking the Reflow Order of a Document
Additional Accessibility Checks

Accessibility Basics

Creating Accessible Content
Elements of Accessible Adobe PDF Documents
Tagged PDF

Creating Accessible PDF Documents from Native Applications

Adobe InDesign
Adobe PageMaker
Microsoft Office

Creating Accessible PDF Documents from Untagged PDF Documents

Converting Untagged Documents to Accessible PDF Documents

Creating Accessible PDF Documents from Scanned Documents

Using Paper Capture to Create Accessible PDF Documents from Scanned PDF Documents
Finding OCR Suspects

Creating Accessible Forms

Creating Accessible Forms from Untagged PDF Documents

Optimising Accessibility of Tagged PDF Documents

Creating Document Navigation
Adding ALT Text to Images
Creating Accessible Hyperlinks
Establishing Document Language

Manipulating Tagged PDF Structural Elements

Correcting Tagging Problems in a PDF Document
Improving the Accessibility of Tables
Combining Documents

Course Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should be familiar with the basic functions of their computer’s operating system

Software

This course uses Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional and:-

Microsoft Word
Adobe LiveCycle Designer (Windows Only)
Additional software may be used to illustrate examples

Additional Notes

Courses can be run on Windows and Macintosh platforms and tailored to meet customers' requirements. Courses run in Edinburgh, Glasgow and at client sites throughout the UK.

Where there are operating system dependencies these are indicated in the factsheet.

Duration

1 Day

Cost

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PDF Version

Factsheet - 1 page (60KB)