Want to learn how to create universally accessible PDFs, making your online content inclusive for all? We go over how in our “Digital and Web Accessibility: PDF Accessibility” training.
If you’ve missed the training, check out the webinar recording, presentation slides, and additional resources below. Contact the CAES Web Team at caesweb@uga.edu for further assistance with your website.
Table of Contents
Webinar Recording
Webinar Outline
Topic | Starts |
---|---|
Introduction | 0:00 |
Overview | 0:30 |
What is PDF accessibility? | 1:56 |
Why is it important to make our PDFs accessible? | 3:11 |
Which PDFs need to be accessible? | 4:33 |
Alternatives to PDFs | 6:47 |
How do I get started? | 7:54 |
Source Document Best Practices | 10:14 |
Use heading styles to make content easy to navigate | 11:17 |
Give images alt text | 13:49 |
Descriptive text for links | 14:37 |
Keep links on one line | 16:58 |
Do not rely solely on color to convey information | 17:46 |
Make sure links have underlines | 19:46 |
Use sufficient color contrast | 20:29 |
Run Accessibility Check | 22:43 |
Saving as PDF | 23:40 |
PDF Remediation in Foxit PDF Editor Pro | 24:27 |
What is PDF remediation? | 24:52 |
What are PDF tags? | 25:06 |
Make sure you have Foxit PDF Editor Pro | 27:24 |
Accessibility checker | 27:43 |
Document Title | 31:45 |
Primary Language | 33:02 |
Running Autotag | 33:54 |
Check tag order | 38:11 |
Check tag types | 45:01 |
Mark empty tags as artifacts | 48:47 |
Add missing tags | 55:51 |
Combining tags | 57:11 |
Add alt text to figures (images) | 59:24 |
Wrapping up | 1:01:28 |
What about the “Add missing tags” video?
During the recorded webinar, we had some technical difficulties and couldn’t play the “Add missing tags” video. You can find it, and the rest of the PDF remediation videos, here: Remediation in Foxit PDF Editor Pro
Slides and Accessibility Resources
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