Fast Track to Accessibility for PDF Creators

Technical level: Beginner

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes (online self-paced class, estimate)

IAAP Education Credits: 1.75 (This course 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.

Note: This course is deprecated and superseded by the newer course version: Fast Track to Accessibility for PDF Creators 2.0. This deprecated course version will remain available for a period of time to allow students to finish it if they've started it and want to finish this version rather than starting over with the new course version.

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