Generate accessible PDFs through Adobe Acrobat and discovering how to fix PDFs to attain accessibility standards

Course Content

This course is for individuals responsible for generating accessible PDFs files which comply to UK government and US Section 508 guildelines

Upon Course completion, the delegate willbe able to generate an accessible PDF and HTML which complies to the guidlines above. Accessible content is checked through both Adobe Acrobat and symbian devices for integrity.

Special interest to: Local government, public sector, pharmaceutical, mobility organisations and companies wishing to comply with new regulations

Introduction
What is Accessibility and how important is accessible PDF and HTML content

Considerations in generating accessible PDF
Authoring applications - good and bad.
Microsoft Office, Adobe Framemaker, Pagemaker and InDesign

Checking PDF Documents for Accessibility
Quick Check of document in preparation for accessibility
Full Check (options and important issues)
Saving accessibility reports and learn to generate report results as comments

Locating Content and Tags
Checking the Order of a Document
Additional Accessibility Checks built-in

Accessibility Basics
Creating Accessible Content
Elements of Accessible Adobe PDF Documents
Tagged PDF
Creating Accessible PDF Documents from Untagged PDF Documents
Converting Untagged Documents to Accessible PDF Documents
Creating Accessible Forms
Creating Accessible Forms from Untagged PDF Documents
Optimising Accessibility of Tagged PDF Documents
Creating Document Navigation

Establishing Document Language
Manipulating Tagged PDF Structural Elements
Correcting Tagging Problems in a PDF Document
Improving the Accessibility of Tables
Changing the reading order of content
Combining Documents