EASI 4-part PDF Webinar Series Tuesday March 11, 18, 25 and April 1 (2PM EASTERN)
Accessible and Usable PDF Documents: Techniques for Documents
Presenter: Karen McCall
Karen McCall is the owner of Karlen Communications,
an adaptive technology consulting and training practice. She started working
with accessibility issues of PDF with version 4.5 of Adobe Acrobat Reader and
the plug-in that had to be used for minimal access to PDF documents. Since version
5 of Adobe Acrobat , Karen has been providing on-site, online and self-paced
CD workshops on creating accessible and usable PDF documents. Karen was the author
of the Adobe Systems How to Use Adobe Reader 6: A Guide to People with Disabilities
booklet and their How to Create Accessible PDF: A Guide for Document Authors,
also for version 6. She has lead several pre-conference workshops on creating
more accessible PDF documents, the most recent one at the Accessible Design in
the Digital World conference in Dundee, Scotland in August of this year. Karen
is an active member of the PDF/UA [Universal Access] working group which will
be developing standards for accessible PDF documents.
Karen also provides workshops on
- The standards and guidelines for digital environments
and information related to eLearning
- Creating Daisy content and choosing Daisy players
- Using tablet technology for people with disabilities
[and without]
You can watch and listen to a recording of Karen's presentation giving an hour's overview of accessible PDF
Overview of Accessible PDF
These live Webinars will be held one
per week during February 2007 and will all be at 2 PM Eastern time.
If you miss any presentation, you will have
access to a recording of the presentation.
The 4 Web conferences in the series are:
March 11: Week One: Getting Our Bearings
- What is tagged PDF?
- How does it make PDF documents accessible for people
using adaptive technology?
- What does a Tags Tree look like?
- Creating a tagged PDF document from Microsoft Word
- Adding Alt Text to images
- Logical document structure/custom headings
March 18: Week Two: Tagging and Repair Tools
- What are the tools in Adobe Acrobat to tag and
repair documents?
- TouchUp Reading Order tool
- Legacy PDF
- Creating Bookmarks
- Strategies for easy navigation
March 25: Week three: Intermediate Techniques
- Repair topic: Adding Alt Text to Images
- Repair Topic: Creating Links
- Recognize with OCR
April 1: Week Four: The Next Step
- Tables in PDF
- PDF from other Microsoft applications
- What other elements need to be accessible [not
included in this clinic]
- Forms in Adobe Acrobat, LiveCycle Designer
The registration fee for this 4-part series is
$150, and you can pay by check, credit card or purchase order.
After you follow the link below to a secure server,
the first item is for you to select from a list of EASI courses and a Web conference.
It is important that you select EASI Web Conference Series
Then, you will be asked to select the date for this specific series. Note the
date is March 11, 2008
You need to fill out everything in the form. The system will show you everything
you filled and give you an opportunity to modify the form. You will not be finished
till you click on the button saying
Complete the order.
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