Creating Accessible PDF Documents

Adobe Acrobat helps you communicate and collaborate easily and securely using PDF, the standard for electronic document exchange. Create and reliably share PDF documents and forms, help protect and control sensitive information, safeguard your work, and communicate exactly as you intended.

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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