The PDF Accessibility course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to create accessible PDF documents that can be accessed and understood by individuals with disabilities. In this course, participants will learn the techniques, best practices, and tools necessary to ensure that PDF documents are accessible and compliant with accessibility standards.
Objectives:
- Understanding PDF Accessibility: Gain a comprehensive understanding of the importance of PDF accessibility, its impact on users with disabilities, and the benefits of creating inclusive and accessible PDF documents.
- Accessibility Laws and Standards: Familiarize yourself with accessibility laws, such as Section 508 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and learn how they apply to PDF documents.
- Document Structure: Learn how to properly structure PDF documents using headings, lists, and other structural elements, enabling users to navigate and understand the content more easily.
- Text and Font Accessibility: Understand techniques for ensuring text accessibility, including appropriate font styles, sizes, and color contrast, to improve readability for individuals with visual impairments.
- Alternative Text for Images: Master the art of adding alternative text for images, charts, graphs, and other visual elements, allowing users with visual impairments to comprehend the visual content.
- Tables and Data Accessibility: Learn how to create accessible tables and data within PDF documents, including properly formatted headers, data cell associations, and summaries.
- Hyperlinks and Navigation: Understand the importance of creating descriptive hyperlinks and implementing appropriate navigation features, ensuring ease of use and efficient navigation within PDF documents.
- Document Language and Metadata: Explore techniques for specifying the document language and adding appropriate metadata, enhancing accessibility and facilitating document searchability.
- Document Review and Remediation: Acquire practical skills for reviewing and remediating existing PDF documents for accessibility, using various tools and techniques to identify and address accessibility issues.
- Document Conversion and Optimization: Understand how to convert and optimize documents from different file formats to accessible PDFs, ensuring compatibility with assistive technologies and different devices.
- Continued Accessibility Maintenance: Learn how to establish processes for ongoing PDF document accessibility evaluation, maintenance, and improvement, ensuring compliance with evolving accessibility standards.
Who Should Attend:
This course is suitable for professionals, educators, content creators, and anyone involved in creating and distributing PDF documents. Whether you are new to PDF accessibility or seeking to enhance your existing knowledge, this course provides essential skills to make your PDF documents accessible and inclusive.
Join us in this course and unlock the power of PDF accessibility to ensure that your documents can be accessed and understood by all users, regardless of their abilities or assistive technology usage. Enroll today and contribute to a more inclusive digital environment.
Accessibility Statement:
The Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights would like to make this an inclusive and accessible experience for everyone. Should anyone require disability-related accommodations to participate in this training, please send any requests to [email protected] as early as possible, but no later than the Monday prior at noon (12pm), so that we have time to arrange for the necessary accommodations.
Note: To allow for time to put the disability-related accommodation in place, we recommend including a date that is at least 5 business days prior to the event.