Find out how to create PDF files that are accessible to users of assistive technology.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- The ultimate guide to accessible PDFs
- Introduction to creating accessible PDFs
- What is accessibility?
- Accessibility standards
- Check PDF accessibility
- The NVDA PDF reader experience
- Acrobat Pro DC setup and workspace
- PDF accessibility requirements
- The PDF remediation workflow
- PDF remediation
- Add metadata
- Tag content with the Reading Order tool
- Dealing with content that spans more than one page
- Tagging lists
- Tagging table of contents
- Creating table of contents links
- Tagging tables
- The Table Editor
- Artifacting elements
- Work with the Content pane
- Add alternative text
- Add bookmarks
- Tagging footnotes
- Walking the tags tree
- Validate the PDF file and cleanup
- Finishing touches
- Checking color contrast
- Testing with a screen reader
- Third-party tools
- Accessible PDF on Windows vs. Mac
- Layout considerations and setup
- Add metadata
- Styles and outline levels
- Adding bookmarks
- Tagging tables
- Add hyperlinks
- Create a table of contents
- Add alternative text
- Artifacting objects
- Footnotes and endnotes
- Things to watch out for in Word
- Touch-ups after conversion from Word
- Funky fix-up
- General considerations
- Adding a document title in PowerPoint
- The importance of master slides
- Defining PowerPoint tag order
- Add alternative text in PowerPoint
- Work with PowerPoint tables
- Touch-ups after conversion from PowerPoint
- Best way to generate the PDF file
- InDesign layout considerations
- Add required metadata in InDesign
- InDesign styles and tag structure
- Controlling tag order with InDesign
- Control InDesign reading order
- Create InDesign captions
- Anchoring objects in text frames
- Work with tables in InDesign
- Interactive hyperlinks in InDesign
- Create a list with InDesign
- Add cross-references in InDesign
- Creating an InDesign table of contents
- Alternative text for images and graphics in InDesign
- Artifacting InDesign objects
- PDF bookmarks in InDesign
- InDesign footnotes and endnotes
- Including an index with InDesign
- Finishing touches and validating
- Next steps
Taught by
Chad Chelius