This self-paced online course will give you a background in what a tagged PDF document is and how to perform basic user testing on tagged PDF documents. This course will be useful to those who are beginning their studies or career in accessible document design or accessible PDF documents or for those who are getting accessible PDF documents back from a remediation service. Knowledge is power! Having a basic understanding of what an accessible PDF document is and/or how to make some basic repairs/remediations will help you provide more accessible PDF documents. This is an introductory course. I do have other courses on how to create more accessible Word documents so you don’t have as many remediations in a PDF document or so that your Word documents can be accessed by those of us using adaptive technology. I also have a course on accessible fillable PDF forms which is a bit of an advanced topic. I recommend my book “Accessible and Usable PDF Documents: Techniques for Document Authors, Fourth Edition” as a supplement to this course if you really want to delve into accessible PDF. All can be purchased through my Teachable school.
Course Curriculum
- Credly Micro-credential Professional Development Badges
- Download the Basic PDF Tags Handout
- Adaptive Technology Overview (17:13)
- Types of Disability (Overview) (8:42)
- What are Tags and Why are They Critical to Accessible PDF Documents? (35:53)
- Background
- The Parent/Child Relationship (15:09)
- Converting Word Documents to Tagged PDF (5:54)
- List, Table and Figure Remediation in PDF from Word (10:45)
- Page Labels/Page Numbers in a Tagged PDF Document (9:04)
- Quality Assurance (QA) of a Tagged PDF Document (17:29)
- Overview of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (11:50)
- AutoTag Document (5:01)
- Adding Tags using the Tags Panel (4:46)
- Adding Tags using the the Order Panel (2:47)
- Adding Tags using the Reading Order Panel (2:10)
- The Make Accessible Action Wizard (8:58)
- Using F2 to Edit Tags in a PDF Document (3:59)
- Using Copy and Paste to Manually Add a List Structure to a Tagged PDF (4:59)
- Lists and Complex Lists (32:34)
- Manually Tag Tables (16:33)
- Using the Table Editor in the Reading Order Tool (8:47)
- Working with Links in PDF Documents (23:14)
- Alt Text versus Actual Text (26:55)
- Removing Blank Lines from a PDF Document (12:54)
- Order Panel and the Reading Order Tool (2:46)
- Logical Reading Order in PDF Documents (6:06)
- Sample Documents Showing Logical Reading Order (28:44)
- Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Check (14:01)
- Export a PDF to Word (or other format)
Accessible PDF Documents (Basics)
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Accessible Fillable PDF Forms
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Styles in Word: A Primer for Accessible Document Design
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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.
