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Best PDFs—WCAG, PDF/UA and Best Practices

Scheduled at 8:30 in Independence on Wednesday, November 18.

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Speaker(s)

  • Bevi Chagnon, Designer, Senior Accessibility Trainer, PubCom.com

Session Details

  • Length of Session: 2-hr
  • Format: Lecture
  • Expertise Level: Beginner
  • Type of session: General Conference

Summary

Create the most accessible PDFs using a new guide that combines WCAG, PDF/UA and industry best practices. Developed by 3 long-time accessibility experts (Bevi Chagnon—PubCom.com (presenter), Karen McCall—Karlen Communications), and Virginia Gavin—Appligent Technologies), it "untangles" the most common misconceptions of how PDFs differ from HTML and what a PDF needs to have in order to be accessible to different technologies.

Abstract

Create the most accessible PDFs using a new guide that combines WCAG, PDF/UA and industry best practices. Developed by 3 long-time accessibility experts (Bevi Chagnon—PubCom.com (presenter), Karen McCall—Karlen Communications), and Virginia Gavin—Appligent Technologies), it "untangles" the most common misconceptions of how PDFs differ from HTML and what a PDF needs to have in order to be accessible to different technologies. Examines WCAG's common PDF Techniques and expands them with PDF/UA and industry best practices. At the end of the seminar, you'll have a thorough guide to use when making or checking PDFs for compliance.

Keypoints

  1. Knowing accessibility standards for PDFs allows content creators to quickly and easily make compliant content.
  2. Course eliminates the mystery of understanding WCAG, PDF/UA, and best practices.
  3. Provides solid guidance on what is needed for PDFs to be fully compliant with most technologies.

Disability Areas

All Areas

Topic Areas

Accessible Course Design, Alternate Format, Assistive Technology, Other, Uncategorized

Speaker Bio(s)

Bevi Chagnon

Bevi Chagnon has been active in the standards community for more than 30 years, and currently is a US Delegate to the ISO committees for PDF and PDF/UA. With a long career in publishing, she’s an expert for Adobe InDesign, Acrobat, MS Office, and accessibility. She’s a professional educator, award-winning designer, and former faculty member at Washington DC-area colleges/universities. Bevi is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and a contributor on many forums, including the Adobe Community Forums where she is an invited Community Expert.