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Tips and Tricks for Accessible PDFs

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Presented at 2:15pm in Standley II Lab on Wednesday, November 14, 2018.

#17265

Speaker(s)

  • Rob Haverty, Senior Program Manager, Accessibility, Adobe

Session Details

  • Length of Session: 2-hr
  • Format: Lab
  • Expertise Level: All Levels
  • Type of session: General Conference

Summary

At Adobe we are working to improve the experience of creating accessible PDFs. However, it remains a sometimes-challenging process. In my time at Adobe & working with our customers I have garnered a lot of information about making PDFs accessible. The goal of this session is to share some of the ways I’ve learned to make the process easier for you.

Abstract

At Adobe we are working to improve the experience of creating accessible PDFs. However, it remains a sometimes-challenging process. In my time at Adobe & working with our customers I have garnered a lot of information about making PDFs accessible. The goal of this session is to share some of the ways I’ve learned to make the process easier for you. The content of this session will be somewhat fluid depending on the current state of PDF accessibility tools within Acrobat & the needs of the participants. Some of the areas that may be covered include, editing PDFs, forms, scanned documents, & tables. This list is only a snapshot of possible topics to indicate the broad scope of the session. Nothing that involves making PDFs accessible would be considered off-topic. To get the most out of the session you are encouraged to bring you laptop with the latest version of Acrobat Pro DC (the trial version is fine) & Microsoft Word installed.

Keypoints

  1. How to use Acrobat Pro DC to create accessible PDF documents
  2. Simplifying the process for creating accessible PDF documents
  3. New approaches to creating accessible PDF documents

Disability Areas

All Areas

Topic Areas

Alternate Format, Uncategorized

Speaker Bio(s)

Rob Haverty

Rob Haverty is a Senior Product Manager on the Accessibility team at Adobe primarily focused on Document Cloud. With more than 20 years of accessibility experience Rob as has been involved in many facets of accessibility including product development, technical evangelism, and policy and standards development. Rob has presented at conferences world-wide and has been involved in international accessibility projects such as the UNESCO Inclusive Classroom Project. Prior to coming to Adobe Rob was engaged in accessibility work at Microsoft. Rob has been focused extensively on PDF accessibility during his years at Adobe with the goal of making it easier to create accessible PDF documents frequently providing training on using Acrobat Pro DC to create accessible PDFs.

Handout(s)

We are working diligently at Adobe on improving the experience of creating accessible PDFs. However, it remains a sometimes-challenging process. In my time at Adobe and working with our customers I have garnered a lot of information about making PDFs accessible. The intent of this session is to share some of the ways I’ve learned to make the process easier for you. The content of this session will be somewhat fluid depending on the current state of PDF accessibility tools within Acrobat and the needs of the participants. Some of the areas that may be covered include, editing PDFs, forms, scanned documents, and tables. This list is only a snapshot of possible topics to indicate the broad scope of the session. Nothing that involves making PDFs accessible would be considered off-topic. To get the most out of the session you are encouraged to bring you laptop with the latest version of Acrobat Pro DC (the trial version is fine) and Microsoft Word installed.