Accessible PDF tracking

Date: 
17 Jun 2008 - 09:30 - 16:00

This one day course is designed for people who want to know how to make web PDF content accessible and for anyone who is involved in the PDF creation and design process. This typically includes:

* Graphic designers
* Content writers
* Web developers
* Web site managers
* Creative directors
* Marketing managers

You may work for an agency, a corporate firm, a local council, or anyone that is keen on driving accessibility forwards in their business.
What will I achieve?

On successful completion of this course, participants will:

* Have an understanding of the tagging tools available in Adobe Acrobat
* Know how to begin making Adobe PDF forms accessible
* Be able to set the read order of tags
* Add descriptive text for forms, tables, links and image such as graphs
* Comfortable converting word documents to PDF and identifying issues and correcting tagging and markup
* Be able to Enable settings for text access for screen reader devices

Course content

This one day course provides delegates with practical examples, comprehensive notes, guidelines and sources of reference.

The course can be tailored to meet the needs of your team and your organisation, but typical course content includes:

* Overview of Accessibility in Adobe Acrobat
* Making Adobe PDF forms accessible
* Setting the read order of tags in the document
* Adding descriptive text for forms, tables, links and image such as graphs
* Converting word documents to PDF and identifying issues and correcting tagging and markup
* Enabling settings for text access for screen reader devices
* Making documents pass the Accessibility checker
* Tagging scanned documents

Pre-requisites:

You should be familiar with using Adobe Acrobat and have a clear understanding of working with HTML tags and knowledge of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Web Standards.
We have trained

We have trained people from Vodafone, Macmillan, Midlands Coop, Save The Children, Help the Aged, AbstractMRM, ESRC, Woking Borough Council, Hastings Borough Council, Pernod Ricard, Hermes, English Heritage, Princes Trust, KPMG, BDO Stoy Hayward, The Stationary Office, British Library, Stroud and Swindon, AXA PPP Healthcare, Ecclesiastical, Elsevier and more.

The maximum number of participants at our central london training facility is 8 per course and prices are £245 + VAT per head.

 

Organiser
Organiser: 
spotless design
Venue
Venue: 
BSG House
226 - 236 City Road
London
EC1V 2TT
United Kingdom of Great Britain & N. Ireland