Accessible Fillable PDF Forms (Book)
Create more accessible PDF Forms!
This book is included in the online course of the same name. You don't need to purchase it separately if you are purchasing the course.
This book is also included in the Accessible and Usable PDF Documents: Techniques for Document Authors. You don't have to purchase it separately if you purchase the book.
This book is a great resource for anyone creating more accessible PDF forms. There is a sample form to work through and the finished form that are attached to this book. The book covers form design basics, Text form control, Lists, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, Digital Signatures, setting default form control properties, resizing and aligning form controls and how to finish the form for quality assurance and conformance to standards.
Your Instructor
Karen wrote the first book on creating and working with tagged PDF documents (2005) and the first book on creating and remediating more accessible Word documents (2005). Her PDF book is currently in its fourth edition (2017). There have been several iterations of the Word book, the latest, "Styles in Word: A Primer for Accessible Document Design" was published in 2017.In 2018, she published "Accessible Fillable PDF forms".
Karen has been a Microsoft MVP for Word since 2009 and a Microsoft Accessibility MVP since the additional category was created in 2014. Until August 2018, she was a Canadian delegate to the ISO 32000 (PDF) and ISO 14289 (PDF/UA) committees for over 8 years.
Content in this course is copyright Karen McCall.