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Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Deep-Dive

Course Prerequisites

Prospective students should have the following:

• At least one-month of experience using Adobe Acrobat
  
• Taken our Adobe Acrobat X Training overview course
  

Course Objectives

• Understand what making a document "accessible" really means
• Use different techniques to evaluate accessibility
  
• Understand Acrobat's underlying tagging language
• Use different tools to quickly locate accessibility problems
• Add structure to documents by creating tags and modifying role maps
• Fix difficult to locate tagging errors in Acrobat documents
  

Course Outline

• About the course
  
• What is Accessibility?
• What is Section 508?
• Meeting the standards of section 508
• Adjusting a document to be accessible

Unit 2: Preventing Accessibility Problems before the Occur

• Working with PDFMaker on Windows
• Creating Accessible PDF files from Word (Windows)
• Creating Accessible PDF files from Word (OS/X)
• Creating Accessible PDF files from Excel (Windows)
• Creating Accessible PDF files from Excel (OS/X)
• Creating Accessible PDF files from Powerpoint (Windows)
• Creating Accessible PDF files from Powerpoint (OS/X)
• Creating Accessible PDF files from Adobe InDesign
  

Unit 3: Fixing Accessibility Problems

• Testing for Accessibility Compliance
• Verifying Tags
• Tagging
• Accessibility Quick Check
• Accessibility Full Check
• Reflow
• Read out loud
• Fixing Common Accessibility Problems
• Document Tagging Demystified
• Container Elements
• Heading and Paragraph Elements
• Label and List Elements
• Special text elements
• Table elements
• Inline-level elements
• Special inline-level element
• Tools and techniques to help you fix tagging
  
• The Tags panel
• The Content panel
• The Order panel
• The Touchup Reading Order Tool
• Troubleshooting Advanced Accessibility Problems
• Resolving "content not contained in structure tree" errors
• Fixing elements with Alt text that will never be read
• Adjusting tag types
• Running OCR on embedded images
• Additional Tips and Techniques
• Creating Tagged bookmarks