Advanced Accessible PDFs

Learn to address issues that are preventing your PDF documents from being fully accessible and compliant and get tips and tricks to streamline the PDF remediation process.

Introduction

• Master advanced accessible PDFs

1. Advanced Accessibility Topics in Adobe Acrobat

• Create a tag from a selection
• Working with acronyms
• Creating hyperlinks
• Making a scanned PDF accessible
• Advanced techniques using the Content pane
• Paragraphs that split across a page
• Remediating footnotes
• Security and accessibility
• Merging and splitting documents
• Tagging workflow diagrams

2. Working with Tables in Acrobat

• Defining header cells in a table
• Tables that span multiple pages
• Understanding table spans
• Tagging tables with merged cells
• Defining scope and span manually
• What makes a bad table?
• Dealing with problem tables
• Creating heading and data associations
• Linearizing tables
• Getting creative with tables

3. PDF/UA Remediation

• Understanding PDF/UA
• Reviewing the PAC 3 checker
• Artifacting nonstructural elements
• Element used as a root element
• Inappropriate use of an element
• Role mapping issues
• Alternative descriptions for annotations
• IDs for notes
• Figure element with no bounding box
• Embedding fonts
• Table header cell has no associated subcells
• Adding PDF/UA entry
• PDF/UA resources

4. Useful Automatic Fixes and Shortcuts

• Tags tree shortcuts
• Using Autotag
• Artifacting paths
• Add a unique ID to notes
• Fix problems in the tagging structure
• Preflight panel overview
• Creating a custom action

5. Advanced Accessibility Topics in Microsoft Word

• Working with merged cells
• Problems with PDFMaker
• Overcoming PDFMaker limitations
• Working with multiple heading levels

6. Advanced Accessibility Topics in Adobe InDesign

• Working with merged table data cells
• Working with table headers
• Getting creative with bullets
• Adding alt text for hyperlinks
• Adding form fields in InDesign
• Using object styles for forms in InDesign
• Defining tab order for form fields in InDesign

7. Working with Forms

• Adding form fields in Acrobat
• Properly tagging form fields in Acrobat
• Automatically tagging form fields
• Tagging a button
• Verifying tab order

8. Creating Accessible PDFs from Google Docs

• Introducing Grackle
• Installing Grackle
• Grackle Docs
• Grackle Slides

9. Third-Party Tools

• Tools for visualizing document structure
• PDF remediation tools
• InDesign accessibility scripts

Conclusion

• Next steps