Advanced Creating Accessible Documents: Adobe PDF

PDF files have a variety of different uses, from producing annual reports to brochureware, eBooks and many more. This workshop will help ensure your PDF documents are accessible to everyone, through learning how to create and remediate PDF files in this advanced computer-based workshop.

We’ll show you advanced accessibility techniques to remediate PDF documents, without the need for a source file. On completion of the workshop, you’ll know how to create PDFs that are accessible to everyone, including people with disability or impairment.

Developed in accordance with WCAG 2.1 and best practices cultivated by our team of experts, this course supports inclusive design in alignment with the Australian Government’s Digital Service Standard.

Course Content

Those with a working knowledge of Adobe Acrobat will gain the most from this course, which is taught on PCs using Adobe Acrobat DC. Those who use a different version of Acrobat Pro (e.g. 10 or 11) and Mac users are encouraged to attend as the learning outcomes will be the same.

Background to document accessibility
- How inaccessible documents affect different disability groups
- How people use assistive technologies to access content within digital documents
- Australian legal requirements
- Applicability of WCAG 2.1 to electronic documents

Techniques to create accessible PDF files:
- Create, modify and check tags
- Test and correct the reading order
- Check and correct text colour contrast
- Add text alternatives for images
- Tag headings and lists
- Tag simple and complex data tables and layout tables
- Add hyperlinks
- Add a table of contents
- Edit document properties
- Add bookmarks

Techniques for accessible PDF forms:
- Associate fields with labels
- Test and modify the focus order
- Apply editing restrictions

Accessibility compliance verification:
- Accessibility checker
- Testing with assistive technologies

Do it yourself:
- Apply remediation and testing techniques to sample documents

Note: Techniques for source document creation are covered in Advanced Creating Accessible Documents: Microsoft Office.

Course Materials

We encourage you to bring your own PDF documents on USB to remediate in the ‘do it yourself’ session. Sample PDFs will also be provided.

You’ll receive a comprehensive manual containing:

Step-by-step instructions on how to implement techniques using Microsoft Office.
The rationale for using specific techniques and positive impacts for the end-user.
Explanations, examples, tips and tricks to help you apply accessible practices day-to-day.

Cost and Inclusions

Prices listed are per person, including GST. Catering is provided.

Early bird (registrations confirmed more than 21 days prior): $715
Group rate (registrations for 4 people or more): $715
Full price: $795

Cancellations

You may only cancel your registration by written notice to digitalaccess@visionaustralia.org. If notification of cancellation is received by Vision Australia: (i) more than 14 days prior to the event, a full refund of your registration fees, less an administration fee of $16.50, will be provided; (ii) between 7 and 14 days prior to the event, a refund of 50% of your registration fees, less an administration fee of $16.50, will be provided; (iii) less than 7 days prior to the event, registration fees will not be refunded.

Course enquiries

Phone: 1300 367 055
Email: digitalaccess@visionaustralia.org