Tip of the Day Tuesday Nov. 7th

Making PDF Documents Accessible If you make your Word and Google Doc documents accessible, the accessibility traits will carry-over into the PDF format when you "save-as" or "export to" PDF (NOT if you "print to" PDF). Use the accessibility checkers in Adobe to be certain that everything is still accessible after the conversion to PDF.  Adobe Accessibility Checkers Using the Adobe Reader X & Acrobat X Pro Accessibility Checker Using the Acrobat XI Pro Accessibility Checker

Resources

Creating Accessible PDFs (UofM) Making Accessible PDFs (HHS.gov) WebAIM PDF Accessibility

Creating Accessible PDFs provided by the Loussac Library Login using your municipal library card number and pin or your UA ID and library pin

Scanned Documents You should avoid using documents that have been scanned if at all possible. A scanned document is actually one large image per page and a screen reader will see this as a blank page. Scanned documents are not accessible to screen readers without additional work that is often extensive.

If you do have a scanned document, you will need to convert the image(s) for optical character recognition (OCR) in order for the computer to be able to read the text contained in the scan. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Pro to perform this conversion.  Download Adobe Acrobat Pro X or XI from UA OIT (login required)

NDLW Webinars Resources provided by UAA Instructional Designers

Contact us for further assistance with accessible PDF documents: Academic Innovations & eLearning UAA/APU Consortium Library, 215 (907) 786-4496 uaa_ai@alaska.edu   Mon-Fri, 8a-5p