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Adobe Acrobat Section 508
Accessibility Training

"Remember that Adobe acrobat is not an editing tool, word processor, or desktop publishing application."

This class provides you with the concepts and skills to properly prepare Adobe PDF documents and fillable PDF forms for access by users with disabilities such as blindness, low vision, and other impairments. In this course, you will create, modify, and test PDF documents for accessibility purposes so they are compliant with Section 508 standards and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 requirements.

Class

Fix PDF Files for Accessibility: The Easy and Ultimate Guide to Applying Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 to PDF Files
- Book on Amazon
- Class Exercise Files
  - PDF_Exercises (Zip, 2Mb)
- Class PowerPoints
  - Accessibility_Intro (.pptx 1.5Mb)
  - Accessibility_PDF_Lab (.pptx 27.8Mb)
  - Accessibility_Word_Prep (.pptx 2.39Mb)
Accessibility for Everyone by Ed Thrush
Introduction (Shower)
Document Accessibility
Notes and Examples
All David's A11Y Class Pages and Resources
Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup Groups

Acrobat Resources

Adobe Acrobat (Wikipedia)
An overview of PDF inaccessibility (The Paciello Group)
Create and verify PDF accessibility (Acrobat Pro)
Acrobat Pro DC PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow Linked to Adobe
Acrobat Pro DC PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow Local
Turn paper documents into searchable PDFs
Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features
The Importance of Role Mapping in Acrobat - Level Access
Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels
Standard PDF tags
Predefined PDF Tags
Keyboard shortcuts: Keys for accessibility
Accessibility in Acrobat DC: Ensure the Accuracy of a Tagged PDF
Understanding PDF Artifacts and Their Attributes

Original Source Files

Document Accessibility

A11Y Resources

David's A11Y Class Pages and Resources
- Document Accessibility
- Trusted Tester Program
Free PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC 3) (Zip, 26.5MB)
- Overview PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC) 2.0 (PDF)
European Internet Inclusion Initiative
- Check the Accessibility of a PDF Document
  - Checker PDF Tests
CommonLook® by NetCentric Technologies
Contrast
- Colour Contrast Analyser (The Paciello Group)
  - Download for Windows
  - Download for Mac
- More Contrast Analysers
- Contrast Checker
- Color Contrast Checker - webaim.org
- Color Blindness Simulator - Coblis
Screen Reader
- David's NVDA page
- NVDA, "the free screen reader"
- Accessing PDF Documents with Assistive Technology A Screen Reader User's Guide (2013)
- Example of Using a Screen Reader with an Accessible PDF (YouTube 2:20)
- Untagged PDF Being Read by a Screen Reader (YouTube :30)
- How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!!
- How to do speed read 1000 words per minute!
- Learn NVDA:
  - Hotkeys and Commands, Part 1 Transcript
Readability
CSS Zen Garden
The World Wide Web project "The First Web Page"
Workflow / Checklists
- Acrobat Pro DC PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow (local)
- Acrobat Pro DC PDF Accessibility Repair Workflow (llnked)
- Making a PDF File Accessible - Step by Step (County of Sonoma)
- HHS Making Files Accessible
  - PDF File 508 Compliance Checklist (WCAG 2.0 Refresh - Feb, 2018)
    - Section A: All PDFs
    - Section B: PDFs containing Color
    - Section C: PDFs containing Links
    - Section D: PDFs containing Images
    - Section E: PDFs containing Tables
    - Section F: PDFs containing Lists
    - Section G: PDFs containing Headings
    - Section H: PDFs containing Forms
    - Section i: PDFs containing other common elements
PDF Techniques for WCAG 2.0
PDF Accessibility Basics A Free On-Demand Webinar Series
Section 508 CoP: PDF Accessibility - Part One (YouTube 8:35)
Section 508 CoP: PDF Accessibility - Part Two (YouTube 10:51)
Web Accessibility Tutorials from WAI
- Images Concepts
Web Style Guides
- A11Y Style Guide

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