Course Outline
- Brief Review
- Disabilities and assistive technologies
- WCAG 2.1 and PDF/UA
- Designing with accessibility in mind
- From source files to InDesign to PDF
- What are the main accessibility issues with your content?
- PDF U/A 7.1 General
- Tagging content
- Creating artifacts
- Flickering content, contrast, colour, formatting and layout
- Document title requirements
- Working with scanned documents
- Related WCAG criteria and techniques
- PDF U/A 7.2 Text
- Logical reading order
- Character encoding
- Natural language
- Related WCAG criteria and techniques
- PDF U/A 7.3 Graphics
- Tagging graphics
- Creating artifacts
- Providing alternative text
- Related WCAG criteria and techniques
- PDF U/A 7.4 Headings
- Permissible headings
- Heading structure
- Related WCAG criteria and techniques
- PDF U/A 7.5 Tables
- Proper use of tables
- Table structure
- Table heading requirements
- Related WCAG criteria and techniques
- PDF U/A 7.6 Lists
- Proper use of lists
- List structure
- List requirements
- Related WCAG criteria and techniques
- Other PDF U/A and WCAG 2.1 requirements
- Page headers and footers
- Footnotes and references
- Articles
- Navigation
- Annotations (i.e. comments and links)
- Use of fonts
- Exporting and testing
- Exporting with accessibility options enabled
- Testing the resulting PDF for accessibility
- Repairing issues in the source file when possible
