Fast track to Accessibility for PDF Creators
Technical level: Beginner
Duration: 105 minutes (estimate)
IAAP CAECs: 1.75 (This class counts toward renewal of IAAP certification)
Course Synopsis:
This engaging video-centric course is part of Deque's Fast Track series. This course is perfect for anyone who creates documents using PDF documents.
This training covers a lot of ground in a short amount of time, paving the way for more comprehensive training if desired.
The topics covered are:
- Intro to Accessibility
- Your Role in Creating Accessible PDF Documents
- What are Tags?
- Remediation Flow in PDF Documents
- Optimize the Source Document for Accessibility
- Saving as Tagged PDF
- Automated Tagging
- Manual Tags
- Untagged PDF Conversions
- OCR and Scanned PDFs
- After Converting to Tagged PDF
- The Acrobat Pro Interface
- Tools Used to Review and Assess PDFs
- Acrobat Accessibility Checker
- Document Metadata
- Reading Order
- Working in the Order Pane
- Working in the Accessibility Tags Pane
- Tab Order
- Cleanup
- An Overview of Tagging
- Working with the Accessibility Tags Tree
- Using the Reading Order Tool
- Paragraphs
- Headings
- Images/Figures
- Headers, Footers, and Page Numbers
- Lists
- Links
- Tables
- Artifacts
- Conclusion and Next Steps