Accessible PDF Training
Accessible PDFs!
Making PDF Documents User Friendly and Geared for Accessibility
Friday, September 19, 2008
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
S.C. Dept of Archives and History Auditorium
8301 Parklane Road
Columbia, SC, 29223
Cost: Free. Limited to 200 attendees.
Join Jon Brundage as he addresses the creation, analysis and remediation of PDF Documents for Accessibility. Discover the potential barriers to accessibility that Adobe Portable Document Files (PDF) pose. Gain an understanding of PDF technology and learn to create source files that convert to accessible PDFs. Explore the tools available in Acrobat Professional for analyzing, tagging, updating and making existing PDF files accessible.
This workshop is for anyone who creates, maintains, distributes, examines, or develops PDFs for the web or as document storage files. Focus will be on Adobe Acrobat Professional versions 7 and higher.
Workshop Schedule:
8:30 - 9:00 AM: Registration
9:00 - 10:00 AM: Introduction to PDF technology
- What is a PDF?
- How is the technology a potential barrier for accessibility?
- What are the changes made by Adobe to make PDFs accessible?
10:00 - 10:10 AM: Break
10:10 - 11:00 AM: Creating source files that transform to accessible PDFs. Document structure, alternatives for text, and data tables.
- MS Word
- MS Excel
- MS Power Point
11:00 - 11:10 AM: Break
11:10 - Noon: Acrobat Professional accessibility tools overview
- Analysis
- Reading order
- Text alternatives
- Tables
- Forms
Noon - 1:15 PM lunch
1:15 - 2:15 PM: Demonstration:
- Create source files and convert to PDF
- Analysis of converted files
- Examine tag tree and manipulate the tags
2:15 - 2:30 PM: Break
2:30 - 3:30 PM: Remediation of Legacy PDF files. Analysis using tools in Acrobat Professional. Review the results. Make necessary remediation of files.
- Create logical reading order
- Add text alternatives for images
- Create usable data tables
- Optimize the repaired file
3:30 - 4:00 PM: Resources. Question and answers
Jon Brundage is a nationally known accessibility trainer and author. He has taught all aspects of accessibility to corporations, government, and educational institutions. He has trained several thousand individuals on Section 508 requirements and the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. As managing editor, Jon was one of the founders of Accessible Content magazine. He is also a web developer and has performed analysis of the accessibility conformance level of many web sites.
This workshop is sponsored by the SC Assistive Technology Advisory Committee (ATAC) and the South Carolina Assistive Technology Program.