Accessible Documents: Word and PDF

If you would like to learn more about creating accessible documents, these trainings are for you!

Part 1: Accessible Word Documents

If you have never attended any accessible documents training before, you should start with this session. In this workshop, we will cover the basics of creating an accessible document including:

Headers
Color and contrast
Images and alt text
Tagging
Creating white space
Inline formatting
Running the accessibility checker

These are fundamentals of document accessibility and need to be understood before moving on to PDF accessibility.

Option 1: Thursday, July 29th, 10am - 11am

Option 2: Thursday, August 5th, 10am - 11am

Part 2: Accessible PDF Documents

This workshop builds on the skills and vocabulary learned in the Accessible Word Documents training. We will look at inaccessible documents that need to be remediated using Adobe Acrobat Pro. In this workshop, we will cover:

Strategies to find alternative digital documents
Which documents are good candidates for remediation
Running the accessibility checker
How to edit out some issues
Tagging items in the document
Adding Alternative text
Checking the read order

Option 1: Friday, July 30th, 10am - 11:30am

Option 2: Friday, August 6th, 10am - 11:30am

Join a Workshop

No registration is needed for these workshops.

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