InDesign: PDF Accessibility

Course Title

Adobe InDesign: PDF Accessibility.

Description

Accessibility means ensuring that your content is available to as many users as possible. To make PDFs accessible, you must add tags and create semantic structures. Bookmarks for navigation and alternative text to non-decorative graphics and images should also be included.

In addition, information is provided so that the documents are readable for users with visual disabilities or with reduced mobility. Using the latest versions of Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat Pro, it is much easier to create accessible and valid PDFs.

In this course, Mariano Caino shows you how to prepare an InDesign document for accessibility. It also teaches you how to export as a tagged PDF. Then, you will learn how to remediate with Acrobat Pro for assistive technology users such as JAWS and NVDA. In addition, it presents two workflows to create PDFs accessible from scratch using InDesign.

During the training Mariano offers techniques, tips and tricks. These help make accessibility easy to incorporate into each document you publish.

Topics Included

• What is accessibility?
• WCAG principles and guidelines, and PDF/UA techniques
• ADA, AODA, EAA, EN 301 549, and Section 508 compliance
• Preparing InDesign documents
• Adding metadata: title, author, description and keywords
• Indicating languages: global, primary, blocks and characters
• Setting-up the logical reading order: Articles and Layers
• Previewing and reducing style overrides
• Calculating the length of characters per line
• Mapping PDF tags to existing paragraph styles
• Automatic and manual bookmarks
• Applying alternative text to graphics and images
• Achieving sufficient color contrast in texts and graphics
• Adding and managing hyperlinks
• Adding cross-references
• Generating interactive tables of contents
• Inserting footnotes and endnotes
• Creating a Preflight profile for error detection
• Settings for accessibility in Acrobat Pro
• Workflow to remediate PDF
• Tagging content, including lists and tables
• Generating a truly and valid accessible PDF
• Controlling the semantic structure of tags
• Checking the logical reading order: Order and Tags
• Accessible tables: headers, summaries, and cell scope
• Checking errors with Preflight profiles
• Checking with Acrobat Pro, pdfGoHTML, PAC, PDFix, and veraPDF
• Creating valid accessibility reports for delivery
• The screen reader experience: JAWS, NVDA, Google TalkBack, Apple VoiceOver

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