Adobe and Digital Accessibility

Overview

If possible, avoid the use of PDFs and use webpages (best choice) or Microsoft Office documents.  If PDFs are required they are more complicated to make accessible. PDFs are basically images generated from the source document, so to make a pdf accessible, tags (like alt text) are added to every part of the document to make it consumable by a screen reader.

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More content coming, in the meantime, check out:

• State of Michigan PDF training
• Section 508 PDF training videos
• Level Access Adobe Acrobat Pro training (login required)

Adobe Acrobat Pro Training videos on YouTube from The University of Texas at Arlington:

1. Accessibility Checker (about 3 minutes)
2. Reading Order (about 2 minutes)
3. Reviewing the Tag Tree (about 3 minutes)
4. Correcting Untagged Images (About 2 minutes)
5. Verifying and Correcting Alt Text (About 2 minutes)