PDF Accessibility Sessions Added
- April 8th, 2019
- in Training, UA11y News
We’ve added several opportunities to learn about PDF accessibility in April and May. Enhance your ability to create accessible PDFs by participating in these workshops and webinars:
- Creating Accessible PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (webinar)
This session covers how to use Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to create PDFs that are accessible to people with disabilities: what it means for a PDF to be accessible; generating accessible PDFs from Microsoft Office and other applications; and using Acrobat’s Accessibility Checker and Make Accessible Action Wizard to evaluate the accessibility of a PDF and make basic accessibility fixes.
Thursday, Apr. 11, 2019, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. - Creating Accessible PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC
This session covers how to use Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to create PDFs that are accessible to people with disabilities: what it means for a PDF to be accessible; generating accessible PDFs from Microsoft Office and other applications; and using Acrobat’s Accessibility Checker and Make Accessible Action Wizard to evaluate the accessibility of a PDF and make basic accessibility fixes.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. - Advanced PDF Accessibility with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC: Scanned Documents, Tables, and Lists (webinar)
You’ve mastered the basics of creating accessible PDFs, but what about more complex documents? This session covers advanced techniques such as working with scanned documents, complex tables, and complex lists. You are welcome to submit challenging PDF content in advance so we can address it during the session.
Monday, April 22, 2019, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Advanced PDF Accessibility with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC: Scanned Documents, Tables, and Lists
You’ve mastered the basics of creating accessible PDFs, but what about more complex documents? This session covers advanced techniques such as working with scanned documents, complex tables, and complex lists. You are welcome to submit challenging PDF content in advance so we can address it during the session.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. - Advanced PDF Accessibility with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC: Forms (webinar)
This session covers how to use Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to create accessible PDF forms: adding fillable form fields and field descriptions, tagging, setting the set tab order, and other PDF form accessibility tasks.
Monday, April 29, 2019, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Advanced PDF Accessibility with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC: Forms
This session covers how to use Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to create accessible PDF forms: adding fillable form fields and field descriptions, tagging, setting the set tab order, and other PDF form accessibility tasks.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. - Creating Accessible PDFs with Adobe InDesign CC (webinar)
Be it a handout, flyer, poster, article, or other digital content, it’s important to ensure your InDesign document is accessible to people with disabilities. This session covers using InDesign and Acrobat to create an accessible PDF: tagging and ordering content, identifying and describing images and other non-text content, selecting the most accessible export options, and using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to touch up the exported file.
Monday, May 6, 2019, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Creating Accessible PDFs with Adobe InDesign CC
You’ve mastered the basics of creating accessible PDFs, but what about more complex documents? This session covers advanced techniques such as working with scanned documents, complex tables, and complex lists. You are welcome to submit challenging PDF content in advance so we can address it during the session.
Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
All classroom workshops are held in A232 Gordon Palmer. Registration is requested.
We are also happy to offer private training sessions on these and other accessibility-related topics to members of the University community. Please contact us if we can help with your technology accessibility needs.