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Quick Start Workshop: Make Your PDF Documents Accessible

Event Type
Conference/Workshop
Sponsor
Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL)
Date
Oct 30, 2024   3:00 - 4:00 pm  
Speaker
Marc Thompson
Registration
Registration is required. Please click here to register
Contact
Marc Thompson
E-Mail
thompso1@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning

Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making your PDF documents accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in PDF and then dive straight into practical solutions.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Create a PDF from an accessible Word document
  • Use Acrobat Pro to identify the basic architecture of that PDF, such as adjusting the reading order and tag order, using the table editor and adding alternative text description to images 

By the end of this workshop, you’ll be on your way to creating PDF documents that are more inclusive.

Important: To participate actively in this workshop, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Pro installed (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore

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