Advanced Accessible PDFs

Introduction

• Is your document accessible?
• What you should know

1. Advanced Accessibility Topics in Adobe Acrobat

• Shortcuts for walking the tags tree
• Creating a tag from a selection
• Paragraphs that split across a page
• Creating hyperlinks
• Fixing untagged hyperlinks
• Addressing multiline hyperlinks
• Advanced techniques using the Content pane
• Security and accessibility
• Merging and splitting documents
• Tagging challenging elements
• Using Autotag
• Fixing decorative bullets and numbers
• Reading options in Acrobat
• Detriments of editing a PDF file
• Working with ligatures and drop caps

2. Working with Tables in Adobe Acrobat

• Defining header cells in a table
• Tables that span multiple pages
• Understanding table spans
• Tagging tables with merged cells
• Defining scope and span manually
• Dealing with blank cells
• What makes a bad table?
• Creative table solutions
• Creating heading and data associations
• An alternative solution to header associations
• Linearizing tables

3. Working with Forms in Adobe Acrobat

• Adding form fields in Adobe Acrobat
• Adding a tooltip to form fields
• Manually tagging form fields
• Automatically tagging form fields
• Tagging a button
• Structuring form tags in the Tags panel

4. Advanced Accessibility Topics in Microsoft Word

• Saving accessible PDFs from Microsoft Word
• Working with merged cells
• Working with custom styles
• Working with multiple table header rows
• Working with multilevel lists
• Setting hyperlink tooltips

5. Advanced Accessibility Topics in Adobe InDesign

• Working with merged table cells
• Working with table headers
• Getting creative with bullets and numbers
• Adding alt text for hyperlinks
• Adding form fields in InDesign
• Adding form fields in tables
• Defining tab order for form fields in InDesign
• Working with InDesign-drawn objects
• Text effects and accessibility
• Helpful scripts for accessibility
• The MadeToTag plugin

6. PDF/UA Remediation

• Understanding PDF/UA
• Reviewing the PAC 2021 Checker
• The Preflight panel
• Artifacting nonstructural elements
• Fixing element used as a root element error
• Fixing inappropriate use of an element error
• Role mapping issues
• Fixing alternative descriptions for annotations error
• Adding IDs for note elements
• Fixing a figure element with no bounding box error
• Embedding fonts
• Fixing table header cell has no associated subcells error
• Adding the PDF/UA entry
• Why is PDF/UA not verified?
• PDF/UA resources

7. Third-Party Tools

• Tools for visualizing document structure
• axesWord
• axesPDF

Conclusion

• Next steps for accessibility