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Essentials
Course Information
This one day, hands-on course focuses on adding accessibility to Adobe Acrobat 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.
Course Prerequisites
Before taking this course, students should be familiar with the basic functions of their computer’s operating system
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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Course Outline
Creating Accessible PDF Documents
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
Accessible PDF Documents from Untagged PDF Documents
- Converting Untagged Documents to Accessible PDF Documents
Accessible PDF Documents from Scanned Documents
- Using Paper Capture to Create Accessible PDF Documents from Scanned PDF Documents
- Finding OCR Suspects
Accessible Forms
- Accessible Forms from Untagged PDF Documents
Optimising Accessibility of Tagged PDF Documents
- Adding Document Navigation
- Adding ALT Text to Images
- Accessible Hyperlinks
- Establishing Document Language
Manipulating Tagged PDF Structural Elements
- Correcting Tagging Problems in a PDF Document
- Improving the Accessibility of Tables
- Combining Documents




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