This course is for anyone who has been working with tagged PDF documents and wants to take their skills to the next level. We start with an accessible PDF document and turn it into an accessible fillable PDF form. By adding the form controls to an already accessible PDF document, people who are blind, have a visual, learning, cognitive or print disability will be able to independently fill out forms for your organization. This is NOT a course on how to Tag or remediate PDF documents. This course starts after you’ve tagged PDF documents.
Course Curriculum
- Document Properties in Microsoft Word (4:46)
- Embedding Fonts in Word (5:53)
- What NOT to do when Creating an Accessible PDF Form
- Hierarchy of Tasks
- Prepare Form Settings (2:57)
- The Importance of ToolTips
- Pinning Form Controls (1:06)
- Required Fields/Form Controls (3:46)
- "Locked" Form Controls (2:24)
- Read-Only Form Controls (16:04)
- Preview and Test an Accessible PDF Form (2:42)
- Starting the Accessible PDF Form (4:14)
- Radio Button Form Controls (10:56)
- Aligning Form Controls Vertically and Horizontally (8:33)
- Sample Question with Yes/No Radio Buttons (3:09)
- Radio Buttons in Columns or "The Train Stop Scenario" (9:58)
- Radio Button Styles (Options tab) (4:31)
- Setting a Default Answer for a Group of Radio Buttons (1:05)
- Use Find - Unmarked Annotations to Add Form Controls to a Tagged PDF (13:06)
- Adding the Tags for the Repeating Form Control at the Top of Each Page (3:34)
- Adding Radio Button Form Controls in Tables (7:31)
- Finishing the Table Containing Radio Buttons (14:30)
- Yes/No Question and Multi-line Form Controls Added to Tags Tree (3:09)
- Train Stop Radio Buttons Added to the Sample Form! (10:24)
- The Finished Form!
- Adding the Last Form Controls to the Tagged PDF (7:49)
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Karen McCall, M.Ed.
Karen has been working in the field of digital accessibility for over 25 years. Her book on creating and working with accessible PDFs was first published in 2005 with subsequent updates. The fourth edition was published in 2017. She has written books on creating accessible Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and PDF forms. She is a Canadian delegate to ISO 32000 (PDF) and ISO 14289 (PDF/UA) as well as the technical standards committee for plain language for the Accessible Canada Act. She has been a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps and Services since 2009 and a Microsoft Accessibility MVP sine the category was created in 2014.